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Volume II Issue III July-September 2022
Name of Author :
Dr. Sadaf Shah & Pooja Kumari
Title of the paper :
Disability from a Misfit’s Perspective: A Study of Malini Chib’s One Little Finger
Abstract:
Disability is often seen through medical lens. People with disabilities are considered as deficient, defective and dependent who will never succeed in their lives. Countering the dominant notions on disability, disabled people disregard disability as a medical condition and see it as a social construct. The present paper attempts to study Malini Chib‘s memoir One Little Finger 2011 from the perspective of a misfit to depict how disability is socially constructed. Chib was born with a neurological condition called as Cerebral Palsy that resulted in body muscles and speech impairment in her. While analysing the memoir, the disability theorist Rosemarie Garland-Thomson‘s concept of ‗misfit‘ and the social model of disability have been taken into consideration to show how Chib suffered at the hands of society that erected barriers for her through inaccessibility and thus, rendered her ‗misfit.‘ To elaborate on social construction of disability, Tom Shakespeare, the disability academic and activist views on social model of disability have been taken into consideration. The paper concludes that society made her feel disabled through attitudinal, environmental and structural barriers and thus, denying access. It, further, concludes that disability is an aspect of one‘s identity and not the whole identity. The paper suggests that society should change its attitude towards disabled people and strive towards creating inclusive environment where disabled people feel at home. It, further, suggests that society should aim towards creating more accessible environment for people with disabilities.
Keywords :
discrimination, oppression, ableist society, inaccessibility, misfit, social construct, barriers
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Page No. :
16-19