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Tillie Walden Clementine (2023) - Disability, Girlhood, Zombie Fiction -…
Tillie Walden Clementine (2023) - Disability, Girlhood, Zombie Fiction
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Zombies and girlhood
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Clementine and Tim: "You kids have one of the biggest advantages in human history...everything you need already exists! Granted, the dead broke a lot of shit... but you have a chance to rebuild the world into something better than what we had before" (139). Learning from the past?
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oops, we can't get out of racism/ableism? Does postapocalyptic lit allow us to see what we value from the past to write a new future.
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a chewy, gummy font with a violent axe allows an ironic rendering of girlhood
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How do we talk about disability, literature, culture?
often pathologized, something to be "fixed," the reification of "wholeness" as a normal and natural state (not real), and the idea of people with disabilities as deficient (that's ableism/sanism, baby)
the trope of acquiring disabilities and then some magical/supernatural force comes in to fix them (curative futurism/curative imaginary)
Wonder and the idea of embracing oneself. What would it mean to have disability pride? What might it mean to center disability in/as/with pleasure?
the icon and framing of the crutch: disability reframes time, space, and your visibility/presence (visual sign and an AURAL experience);
the conception of the "use" of a body, and "We're