Lourdes's Monsters : A Critical Disability Studies Reading of the Spectacle of Disability. / Thompson, Hannah.
In: Australian Journal of French Studies, Vol. 55, No. 2, 07.2018, p. 171-183.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Lourdes's Monsters : A Critical Disability Studies Reading of the Spectacle of Disability. / Thompson, Hannah.
In: Australian Journal of French Studies, Vol. 55, No. 2, 07.2018, p. 171-183.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Lourdes's Monsters
T2 - A Critical Disability Studies Reading of the Spectacle of Disability
AU - Thompson, Hannah
PY - 2018/7
Y1 - 2018/7
N2 - Emile Zola’s 1894 novel Lourdes, J.-K. Huysmans’ 1906 travel narrative Les Foules de Lourdes and François Mauriac’s 1932 novella, Pèlerins all seek to represent and interpret the “monstrous” bodies of ill and disabled pilgrims who visited the town of Lourdes. This article uses Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s critical-disability-studies interpretation of the starer-staree relationship to explore the creative potential of the presence of disability in the literary text. All the texts under discussion are structured around a “quest-for-cure” narrative which subscribes to the outdated “medical” model of disability. Yet their narrators’ interest in disabled bodies leads to a set of powerful aesthetic encounters where narrators and readers are invited the celebrate disability for its own sake.
AB - Emile Zola’s 1894 novel Lourdes, J.-K. Huysmans’ 1906 travel narrative Les Foules de Lourdes and François Mauriac’s 1932 novella, Pèlerins all seek to represent and interpret the “monstrous” bodies of ill and disabled pilgrims who visited the town of Lourdes. This article uses Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s critical-disability-studies interpretation of the starer-staree relationship to explore the creative potential of the presence of disability in the literary text. All the texts under discussion are structured around a “quest-for-cure” narrative which subscribes to the outdated “medical” model of disability. Yet their narrators’ interest in disabled bodies leads to a set of powerful aesthetic encounters where narrators and readers are invited the celebrate disability for its own sake.
KW - critical disability studies
KW - Lourdes
KW - Emile Zola
KW - J.-K. Huysmans
KW - Francois Mauriac
KW - French literature
U2 - 10.3828/AJFS.2018.16
DO - 10.3828/AJFS.2018.16
M3 - Article
VL - 55
SP - 171
EP - 183
JO - Australian Journal of French Studies
JF - Australian Journal of French Studies
IS - 2
ER -