Représentation du handicap et changement de paradigme dans deux romans canadiens contemporains

We propose, in this article, to use a sociopoetic approach, in order to identify the representations of disability through various characters in two contemporary French-Canadian novels. We have studied the poetical processes at work, and especially how the authors use artistic creation and production, in order to question and overturn the existing prejudices dehumanizing people with disabilities. In both novels, Homme invisible à la fenêtre by Monique Proulx (1993) and Un jour ils entendront mes silences by Marie-Josée Martin (2012), the literary discourse constitutes a radical questioning of how disability is perceived, of how and why people with disabilities are being dehumanized, medicalised, and of our understanding of what constitutes “able” and “disabled”.