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Critical Readings in Interdisciplinary Disability StudiesThe Names of Physical Deformity: A Meditation on the Term Disability and Its Recent Uses

Critical Readings in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies: The Names of Physical Deformity: A... [Disability is an umbrella term used to refer to a variety of conditions that result in forms of disenfranchisement or social exclusion on the basis of some assumption understood when labeled as defective or pathological. People we would now label as disabled have lived well prior to modernity, and the use of this category distorts the experience of people who had their own ways of addressing physical deformity without the language of disability being applied to that experience. This essay explores the use of the term “disability” when applied to people who lived in the sixteenth century and the ways it can distort their lived experience. This essay draws on some of the jesters portrayed by Velazquez, as well as the notion of monster.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Critical Readings in Interdisciplinary Disability StudiesThe Names of Physical Deformity: A Meditation on the Term Disability and Its Recent Uses

Part of the Critical Studies of Education Book Series (volume 12)
Editors: Ware, Linda
Moscoso Pérez, Melania
Critical Readings in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies — Mar 14, 2020
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-35307-0
Pages
93 –105
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-35309-4_8
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Abstract

[Disability is an umbrella term used to refer to a variety of conditions that result in forms of disenfranchisement or social exclusion on the basis of some assumption understood when labeled as defective or pathological. People we would now label as disabled have lived well prior to modernity, and the use of this category distorts the experience of people who had their own ways of addressing physical deformity without the language of disability being applied to that experience. This essay explores the use of the term “disability” when applied to people who lived in the sixteenth century and the ways it can distort their lived experience. This essay draws on some of the jesters portrayed by Velazquez, as well as the notion of monster.]

Published: Mar 14, 2020

Keywords: Disability; Monstrosity; Liminality; Jesters; Portraiture

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