"Representations of Disability
in American Literature"
English 380 (GE C4)
Literary Themes

"To participate in an ideological system of bodily norms that promotes some kinds of bodies
while devaluing others is to ignore the malleability of bodies
and their definitively mutant natures” (59-60).
David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder's Narrative Prosthesis (2000)

eugenics								metaphor
	catalyst						prosthesis
		community				passing
			crip		pity
			normate		stigma
		ableism				supercrip
	stare						gaze
euthanasia								alterity

"Christina's World" (1948)
Andrew Wyeth

Dr. Paul Marchbanks
pmarchba@calpoly.edu