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The Necessity Of Disability In Flannery O’Connor’S ‘Good Country People’ And ‘The Lame Shall Enter First', Laura L. Behling
The Necessity Of Disability In Flannery O’Connor’S ‘Good Country People’ And ‘The Lame Shall Enter First', Laura L. Behling
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Yet there is incongruence in O'Connor's portrayals. As A. R. Coulthard suggests, "Good Country People" and "The Lame Shall Enter First" both "leave the question of salvation unanswered" (55), and the disabled who embody the imperfect human form are rarely saved. I would like to redeem Hulga Hopewell and Rufus Johnson, however, and to use their disability to do so. Specifically, I suggest that the non-disabled humanity in these texts is, in fact, corrupt, selfish, and unforgiving, and that this view arises because of characters such as Hulga and Rufus. The disabled are, in fact, necessary in order to expose …
Replacing The Patient: The Fiction Of Prosthetics In Medical Practice, Laura L. Behling
Replacing The Patient: The Fiction Of Prosthetics In Medical Practice, Laura L. Behling
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The invention of computer simulations used for practicing surgical maneuvers in a video game-like format has an ancestry in the artificial limbs of history and is reflected, grotesquely, in Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Man That Was Used Up ". The nineteenth century worked to ensure that the incomplete body did indeed retain a sense of self by creating prostheses to mimic corporeal wholeness. Our present-day technology seems intent on doing precisely the opposite, deliberately fragmenting the body and challenging our understanding of the body and the prosthetic.
Alterted States: Envisioning The Masculin Woman, Laura L. Behling
Alterted States: Envisioning The Masculin Woman, Laura L. Behling
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To be sure, Benchley's satiric portrait does confuse our contemporary sociological notions of the differences between sex and gender...