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TY - CHAP
T1 - Spectrality, Strangeness and Stigmaphilia
T2 - Gothic and Critical Disability Studies
AU - Wasson, Sara
PY - 2020/5/18
Y1 - 2020/5/18
N2 - This chapter discusses the dangers of Gothic in disability representation, but also argue that in some cases, a Gothic mode of representation can be used to effectively indict suffering ensuing from social and environmental maladaptation. Since the eighteenth century, Gothic can at times be understood less as a genre than a mode occupying other literary genres. The trope also sets a false binary between a near-perfect prelapsarian state and an anguished fall after the catalytic event, and leaves no space for considering congenital impairments over acquired. The “stigmaphilia” gained currency in the early years of queer theory, when Michael Warner used the term to describe a defiant embrace of a stigmatised position without acceding to pressures to make that position more conventional, “finding a commonality with those who suffer from stigma, and in this alternative realm to value the very things that the rest of the world despises”.
AB - This chapter discusses the dangers of Gothic in disability representation, but also argue that in some cases, a Gothic mode of representation can be used to effectively indict suffering ensuing from social and environmental maladaptation. Since the eighteenth century, Gothic can at times be understood less as a genre than a mode occupying other literary genres. The trope also sets a false binary between a near-perfect prelapsarian state and an anguished fall after the catalytic event, and leaves no space for considering congenital impairments over acquired. The “stigmaphilia” gained currency in the early years of queer theory, when Michael Warner used the term to describe a defiant embrace of a stigmatised position without acceding to pressures to make that position more conventional, “finding a commonality with those who suffer from stigma, and in this alternative realm to value the very things that the rest of the world despises”.
KW - disability
KW - critical disability studies
KW - Gothic
KW - spectrality
KW - stigmaphilia
KW - queer theory
KW - crip theory
KW - Deborah Padfield
KW - photography
KW - Ellen Samuels
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781138043602
SP - 70
EP - 81
BT - The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability
A2 - Hall, Alice
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -