
Gapienie się a prawo głosu. O przemianach obrazu niepełnosprawności we współczesnej polskiej literaturze dla dzieci
Author(s) -
Agnieszka Kwiatkowska
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
przestrzenie teorii
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2450-5765
pISSN - 1644-6763
DOI - 10.14746/pt.2020.34.15
Subject(s) - feeling , baroque , psychoanalysis , sociology , literature , psychology , philosophy , art , social psychology
The article analyses the way in which disability is portrayed in contemporary Polish literature for children, with a particular emphasis on the latest literature. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s theory of the baroque stare is applied in the analysis and allows the reconstruction of a network of stares in which the disabled are entangled, and also to reconstruct the place attributed to them in society. In a number of texts, a confrontation with onlookers turns out to be an introduction to a dialogue that gives a disabled person a chance to express their feelings and needs. However, the increasingly common portrayal of disability in the social category does not free literature from stereotypes.