{"title":"Disability and the Emotions","authors":"David Bolt","doi":"10.3828/jlcds.2020.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jlcds.2020.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37229,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84006523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The article aims at a critical reconsideration of pity through a close reading of Oscar Wilde's fairy tale "The Star-Child," exploring how it seems both to replicate stereotypically pejorative assumptions about disability and to contain more progressive aspects. Through the disability-aligned characters of the Star-Child (initially the embodiment of physical perfection, but eventually transformed into a scaly toadfaced freak) and his mother (a queen turned beggar-woman so physically repulsive her son finds her too horrible to look upon), Wilde's text requires one to consider the extent to which its representation of pity reinforces a hierarchical division between the fortunate and the unfortunate while encouraging a view of disability as an "evil" fate, but also the extent to which it endorses a more empowering version of pity founded upon love, reciprocity, and action. It may remain unclear whether Wilde is teasing readers for allowing themselves to be manipulated into sentimentalized pity for his protagonist or offering them a sincere attempt at theorizing a more properly humanizing and efficacious version of the much maligned emotion, but, regardless, the complexities of parsing such complicated and contradictory possibilities within "The Star-Child" justify the importance of an earnest reconsideration of the relation between pity and disability.
{"title":"Reconsidering the Role of Pity in Oscar Wilde's \"The Star-Child\"","authors":"C. Foss","doi":"10.3828/JLCDS.2019.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/JLCDS.2019.15","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The article aims at a critical reconsideration of pity through a close reading of Oscar Wilde's fairy tale \"The Star-Child,\" exploring how it seems both to replicate stereotypically pejorative assumptions about disability and to contain more progressive aspects. Through the disability-aligned characters of the Star-Child (initially the embodiment of physical perfection, but eventually transformed into a scaly toadfaced freak) and his mother (a queen turned beggar-woman so physically repulsive her son finds her too horrible to look upon), Wilde's text requires one to consider the extent to which its representation of pity reinforces a hierarchical division between the fortunate and the unfortunate while encouraging a view of disability as an \"evil\" fate, but also the extent to which it endorses a more empowering version of pity founded upon love, reciprocity, and action. It may remain unclear whether Wilde is teasing readers for allowing themselves to be manipulated into sentimentalized pity for his protagonist or offering them a sincere attempt at theorizing a more properly humanizing and efficacious version of the much maligned emotion, but, regardless, the complexities of parsing such complicated and contradictory possibilities within \"The Star-Child\" justify the importance of an earnest reconsideration of the relation between pity and disability.","PeriodicalId":37229,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"21 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48052324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The article explores disorienting encounters within the disability studies classroom as a necessary and generative affective interaction, rather than a distraction from teaching and learning. While these sorts of encounters appear within disability studies scholarship, their impact and import within pedagogy remains under-examined. The argument in the article is that such moments provide an occasion not only to learn about ableism or disability culture but actually to feel something about these things. This analysis of disorientation involves an account of complex encounters that expose ways of knowing and feeling disability typically covered over in everyday life.
{"title":"Embracing Disorientation in the Disability Studies Classroom","authors":"R. Parrey","doi":"10.3828/JLCDS.2019.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/JLCDS.2019.16","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The article explores disorienting encounters within the disability studies classroom as a necessary and generative affective interaction, rather than a distraction from teaching and learning. While these sorts of encounters appear within disability studies scholarship, their impact and import within pedagogy remains under-examined. The argument in the article is that such moments provide an occasion not only to learn about ableism or disability culture but actually to feel something about these things. This analysis of disorientation involves an account of complex encounters that expose ways of knowing and feeling disability typically covered over in everyday life.","PeriodicalId":37229,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"37 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46903856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Over the past decade, autobiographical comics that focus on experiences of illness and disability—a genre also known as “graphic pathography”—have not only received increasing recognition from lite...
{"title":"Reflections on the Boom of Graphic Pathography","authors":"G. Wegner","doi":"10.3828/JLCDS.2019.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/JLCDS.2019.18","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past decade, autobiographical comics that focus on experiences of illness and disability—a genre also known as “graphic pathography”—have not only received increasing recognition from lite...","PeriodicalId":37229,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"57-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90346920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:If there is no crying in disability studies, then what becomes of those whose emotions are disabling or those whose disability is invalidated because it is considered just a feeling? The article explores the imbrication between emotions and disability in queer and affect theory. Building on Robert McRuer's work connecting queerness and disability and José Muñoz's theorization of brown feelings, the slipperiness between disability identity and emotions is named crip feelings/feeling crip. The term uses "crip" to signify how the confluence of disability and emotions further troubles the able-disabled identity divide and expands McRuer's "ability trouble" not only to allow understandings of emotions to be put into crisis but also to proliferate opportunities for political alliances. The article begins with a reading of a keynote lecture that focuses on disability, feeling, and suicide to lay out the key terms and theoretical interventions; moves to a recruitment and extended reading of José Muñoz's work on Fred Herko's life and eventual suicide; and then offers a reading of a fictional representation of the overlap of queerness, disability, and emotions as an example of what may be possible when the slipperiness between disability identity and emotions occurs.
{"title":"Crip Feelings/Feeling Crip","authors":"Brady James Forrest","doi":"10.3828/JLCDS.2019.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/JLCDS.2019.14","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:If there is no crying in disability studies, then what becomes of those whose emotions are disabling or those whose disability is invalidated because it is considered just a feeling? The article explores the imbrication between emotions and disability in queer and affect theory. Building on Robert McRuer's work connecting queerness and disability and José Muñoz's theorization of brown feelings, the slipperiness between disability identity and emotions is named crip feelings/feeling crip. The term uses \"crip\" to signify how the confluence of disability and emotions further troubles the able-disabled identity divide and expands McRuer's \"ability trouble\" not only to allow understandings of emotions to be put into crisis but also to proliferate opportunities for political alliances. The article begins with a reading of a keynote lecture that focuses on disability, feeling, and suicide to lay out the key terms and theoretical interventions; moves to a recruitment and extended reading of José Muñoz's work on Fred Herko's life and eventual suicide; and then offers a reading of a fictional representation of the overlap of queerness, disability, and emotions as an example of what may be possible when the slipperiness between disability identity and emotions occurs.","PeriodicalId":37229,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"75 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44869065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disability and the Emotions, Seminar Series, Phase One, Centre for Culture and Disability Studies","authors":"Holly Lightburn","doi":"10.3828/jlcds.2020.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jlcds.2020.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37229,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"109 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41550713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disability and the Emotions, Seminar Series, Phase Two, Centre for Culture and Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University","authors":"Amy Redhead","doi":"10.3828/jlcds.2020.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jlcds.2020.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37229,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"115 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49272486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The article explores chronic pain from a critical crip standpoint. It sets out why pain can be considered an emotion and presents a short crip reading of normative understanding, particularly how chronic pain is both abnormal and an ontological impossibility for the un-pained person. Chronic pain is characterized as "reliably unreliable" and contrasted with the reliable pain of BDSM and normative understandings of health and self-management. The article presents findings from a research project about how people living with chronic pain experienced pain and engaged with BDSM practices. The findings explore how ableist norms structure how we view chronic pain, and the demand for management of pain—particularly for the un-pained other. Also highlighted is a tension between the use of pacing as self-management and self-abjection, and the emotions to which this leads.
{"title":"Chronic Pain as Emotion","authors":"E. Sheppard","doi":"10.3828/JLCDS.2019.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/JLCDS.2019.17","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The article explores chronic pain from a critical crip standpoint. It sets out why pain can be considered an emotion and presents a short crip reading of normative understanding, particularly how chronic pain is both abnormal and an ontological impossibility for the un-pained person. Chronic pain is characterized as \"reliably unreliable\" and contrasted with the reliable pain of BDSM and normative understandings of health and self-management. The article presents findings from a research project about how people living with chronic pain experienced pain and engaged with BDSM practices. The findings explore how ableist norms structure how we view chronic pain, and the demand for management of pain—particularly for the un-pained other. Also highlighted is a tension between the use of pacing as self-management and self-abjection, and the emotions to which this leads.","PeriodicalId":37229,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"20 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48633803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The article aims to expose the ways in which, from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, professions and institutions of confinement have both stoked and assuaged emotions toward people marked with i...
{"title":"Demanding Money with Menaces","authors":"Owen Barden","doi":"10.3828/JLCDS.2019.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/JLCDS.2019.13","url":null,"abstract":"The article aims to expose the ways in which, from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, professions and institutions of confinement have both stoked and assuaged emotions toward people marked with i...","PeriodicalId":37229,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"91-108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90342955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)Ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk (review)","authors":"D. Mitchell","doi":"10.1353/pal.2020.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pal.2020.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37229,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"486 - 490"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/pal.2020.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47779949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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