Anthropocentric Ableism and Virginia Woolf's Flush
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4275387 |
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| Authors | Sebastian Williams (0000-0002-9965-1908, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 107-123 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mosaic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-1276 • E-ISSN: 1925-5683 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/mos.2020.0000 |
| OpenAlex | W4379616890 |
| Language | EN |
Virginia Woolf’s Flush creatively imagines nonhuman experience, which in turn exposes and subverts an underlying anthropocentric ableism—particularly the ways speciesism and ableism are intimately connected. Exploring invalidism, eugenics, and canine perception, Woolf’s novel challenges the very meaning of a “normal” body, language, and literature
Ableism · Aesthetics · Anthropocentrism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Eugenics · Meaning (existential) · Political science · Sociology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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