Telling Our Story: A Literary Analysis of Disability Narratives

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dc.contributor.advisorHinojosa, Victor Javier.
dc.contributor.authorPatterson, Andrew
dc.contributor.departmentPolitical Science.en_US
dc.contributor.otherBaylor University.en_US
dc.contributor.schoolsHonors College.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-21T14:08:56Z
dc.date.available2019-05-21T14:08:56Z
dc.date.copyright2019-05-02
dc.date.issued2019-05-21
dc.description.abstractThis thesis seeks to answer the question: what are the best practices when creating a narrative about disability? To answer this question, I analyze the development of disability narratives throughout four novels written over the last century; The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night-time by Mark Haddon, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The first two novels feature a first person narration of disability, a character with a disability serves as the narrator of at least part of the novel. The second two novels feature a third person narration of disability, a non-disabled narrator telling the story of someone with a disability. I find that the best narrative practices utilize first person narrations, avoid counterproductive narrative tropes such as the kill or cure trope and techniques such as disability as a narrative prosthesis, and otherwise provide as realistic an image of disability as possible in a work of fiction.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2104/10567
dc.rightsBaylor University projects are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. Contact libraryquestions@baylor.edu for inquiries about permission.en_US
dc.rights.accessrightsWorldwide accessen_US
dc.subjectDisability Studiesen_US
dc.subjectLiteratureen_US
dc.subjectDisabilityen_US
dc.subjectFaulkner, Williamen_US
dc.subjectSteinbeck, Johnen_US
dc.subjectLee, Harperen_US
dc.subjectHaddon, Marken_US
dc.subjectFictionen_US
dc.titleTelling Our Story: A Literary Analysis of Disability Narrativesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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