1. focusing on a particular impairment and what narrative function it serves, compare with non-stereotyped examples. E.g.: blindness used to symbolize seeing more deeply; understanding the holy or the occluded; compared with literal blindness encouraging develop of AT and interdependence as well as being able to do what others do (if differently) so not carrying as much metaphorical weight. (Books? Stories? EXAMPLES, I know they exist.)
2. Let's try this one again. The holy seer, the mad fool. As in #1.
3. What narrative opportunities does disability create? Worst cases: the redemptive ending in cure; the angst-burden that the struggling parent must carry; the obviously 'justified' reason for eugenics/euthenasia. Better cases: a common experience which offers a chance to bridge species/class/ethnicity/nation etc.; the alien within a society can more readily relate to the alien without, etc.
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Date: 2014-01-02 05:43 pm (UTC)1. focusing on a particular impairment and what narrative function it serves, compare with non-stereotyped examples. E.g.: blindness used to symbolize seeing more deeply; understanding the holy or the occluded; compared with literal blindness encouraging develop of AT and interdependence as well as being able to do what others do (if differently) so not carrying as much metaphorical weight. (Books? Stories? EXAMPLES, I know they exist.)
2. Let's try this one again. The holy seer, the mad fool. As in #1.
3. What narrative opportunities does disability create? Worst cases: the redemptive ending in cure; the angst-burden that the struggling parent must carry; the obviously 'justified' reason for eugenics/euthenasia. Better cases: a common experience which offers a chance to bridge species/class/ethnicity/nation etc.; the alien within a society can more readily relate to the alien without, etc.