Guy de Maupassant, Louisa May Alcott and Youth at Risk: Lessons from the New Paradigm of Disability

Autor/in	Kudlick, Catherine J.
Titel	Guy de Maupassant, Louisa May Alcott and Youth at Risk: Lessons from the New Paradigm of Disability
Quelle	In: Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 45 (2009) 1-2, S.37-49 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0030-9230
Schlagwörter	Literary Genres; Blindness; Attitudes toward Disabilities; At Risk Persons; Critical Theory; Private Financial Support; Social Class; Social Systems; Nationalism; Sex Role; Foreign Countries; Nineteenth Century Literature; French Literature; United States Literature; France + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Literarische Form; Blindheit; Risikogruppe; Kritische Theorie; Private Investition; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Social system; Soziales System; Nationalismus; Geschlechterrolle; Ausland; Frankreich
Abstract	This article reads two late nineteenth century short stories--one by Guy de Maupassant and the other by Louisa May Alcott--through the interpretive framework of Critical Disability Studies. It contrasts the traditional view of disability as a deficit or pathology that befalls certain unfortunate individuals with a newer one that understands it much like gender, race, and social class. Both stories reveal much more about sighted people's fears than they do about blindness. Ultimately, this method of reading historically says much about forces such as national identity, capitalism, philanthropy, gender roles, social class, and the complex relationship each has to the troubled concept of modernity that emerged in both France and the United States. (Contains 16 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10