Bolt, David (2015) Not forgetting happiness: The tripartite model of disability and its application in literary criticism. Disability and Society, 30 (7). pp. 1103-1117. ISSN 1360-0508
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Abstract
This interdisciplinary article draws on the social sciences to posit a tripartite model from which literary research into disability can benefit. Ableism and disablism are defined by normative positivisms and non-normative negativisms respectively, but consideration is also given to non-normative positivisms. Informed by experiential knowledge, the model is illustrated with reference to a trilogy of literary representations of blindness: George Sava’s novel Happiness is blind (1987), Brian Friel’s play Molly Sweeney (1994), and Stephen Kuusisto’s memoir Eavesdropping (2006). The result is a complex reading that recognises problems but also non-normative renderings of happiness.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article submitted for consideration in Disability & Society [copyright Taylor & Francis]; Disability & Society is available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cdso20#.Vhu0U24ereQ |
| Keywords: | Happiness, Literary representation, Non-normative positivisms, Blindness, Ableism, Disablism |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Susan Blagbrough |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Feb 2016 12:33 |
| Last Modified: | 19 May 2021 10:25 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/528 |
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