"Interpreting Disability Metaphor and Race in Octavia Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5246773 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sami Schalk (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 139-151 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African American Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1062-4783 • E-ISSN: 1945-6182 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/afa.2017.0018 |
| OpenAlex | W2739335958 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 6 |
Using the example of Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night," this article argues that disability metaphors in African American literature can illuminate the mutually constitutive and overlapping relationships between ableism and antiblack racism. Analysis of the story is used to ground two larger arguments about the need for black disability studies to develop: one, more nuanced approaches to interpreting disability metaphors in African American literature; and, two, a crip theoretical expansion of the definition of disability to include illness and disease
Ableism · African american · Disability studies · Evening · Metaphor · Morning · Racism · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Disability Rights and Representation · Gender Studies · Medicine · Philosophy · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
Sex, Identity, Aesthetics
Black Girl Cartography
Science, fiction, and Santa Claus
Metaphors for legal terms concerning vulnerable people
Fugitive Figurations of Chronic Disability
Each Unbearable Day
The Creative Recuperation of "Blind Tom" Wiggins in Tyehimba Jess's Olio and Jeffery Renard Allen's Song of the Shank
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |