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Haigh, Sam (2010) Writing disability : Alexandre Jollien's eloge de la Faiblesse. Modern Language Review, Vol.105 (No.3). pp. 695-712. ISSN 0026-7937.
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Abstract
Over the last three decades, there has been a proliferation of what has come to be known as disability life-writing, partly as a response to the ways in which disability has been misrepresented in Western culture. After examining the relationship between this literary genre and the burgeoning, international movement from a medical to a social model of disability, this article focuses on Eloge de la faiblesse (1999), by Swiss philosopher Alexandre Jollien. Written in the form of a dialogue with Socrates, this autobiographical text, it is argued, refuses to comply with the narrative demands of 'mainstream' culture and, instead, interrogates the very bases of the able-bodied reader's expectations of writing about disability.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > French Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Modern Language Review | ||||
Publisher: | Maney Publishing | ||||
ISSN: | 0026-7937 | ||||
Official Date: | July 2010 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.105 | ||||
Number: | No.3 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 19 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 695-712 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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