Moving from “the Realm of Hospital Room to the Realm of Political Minority”: Ever Dundas’ HellSans and the Radical Contemporary Disability Novel
In 2019, the celebrated Ukrainian poet Ilya Kaminsky described his new book Deaf Republic as being rooted in the thinking of prominent disability scholar Rosemary Garland-Thompson. As part of an interview for that year’s T. S. Eliot Prize, for which Deaf Republic was shortlisted, Kaminsky quoted Gar...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:etudesecossaises_4959 https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesecossaises.4959 urn:doi:10.4000/etudesecossaises.4959 en https://journals.openedition.org/etudesecossaises/4959 2024-03-29T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/w4q5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Moving from “the Realm of Hospital Room to the Realm of Political Minority”: Ever Dundas’ HellSans and the Radical Contemporary Disability Novel Études écossaises UGA Éditions - Université Grenoble Alpes info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1969-6337 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1240-1439 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/etudesecossaises Glass, Rodge Écosse littérature du handicap radicale Dundas Scotland radical disability literature Dundas In 2019, the celebrated Ukrainian poet Ilya Kaminsky described his new book Deaf Republic as being rooted in the thinking of prominent disability scholar Rosemary Garland-Thompson. As part of an interview for that year’s T. S. Eliot Prize, for which Deaf Republic was shortlisted, Kaminsky quoted Garland-Thompson’s call in her book Extraordinary Bodies for “the disabled body [to] move from the realm of the hospital room to the realm of political minority”. This article argues that within contemporary Scottish literature, an example of this movement in action is the work of the queer crip activist and writer Ever Dundas. Set in a dystopian near-future, Dundas’ 2022 novel HellSans makes disability itself the central conceit of a novel which presents a society divided up into groups, those who are and are not make sick by the use of a particular font in government advertising. The article interrogates how Dundas challenges established ideas regarding the “good disabled”, while rooting the novel in radical artistic traditions in which disability itself is harnessed as an act of resistance. En 2019, le poète ukrainien Ilya Kaminsky disait de son nouvel ouvrage Deaf Republic qu’il trouvait son origine dans la pensée de l’universitaire majeure des études sur le handicap, Rosemary Garland-Thompson. Dans son entretien cette année‑là avec le comité du T. S. Eliot Prize, prix pour lequel Deaf Republic était considéré, Kaminsky cita l’appel de Garland-Thompson, dans son livre Extraordinary Bodies, à ce que « le corps handicapé passe du domaine de l’hôpital à celui des minorités politiques ». Cet article défend l’idée que dans la littérature écossaise contemporaine, l’œuvre de l’activiste homosexuel et pro‑handicap Ever Dundas est un exemple de ce mouvement. Se déroulant dans un futur dystopique proche, le roman de Dundas, HellSans (2022), fait du handicap lui‑même le dispositif central du roman, qui dépeint une société scindée en deux groupes : ceux que l’utilisation d’une certaine police de caractères dans la communication gouvernementale affecte, et ceux qu’elle laisse indemnes. Cet article examine comment Dundas remet en cause les préjugés bien établis concernant « les bons handicapés » tout en fondant son roman sur les traditions artistiques radicales dans lesquelles s’intègre le handicap comme acte de résistance. |
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In 2019, the celebrated Ukrainian poet Ilya Kaminsky described his new book Deaf Republic as being rooted in the thinking of prominent disability scholar Rosemary Garland-Thompson. As part of an interview for that year’s T. S. Eliot Prize, for which Deaf Republic was shortlisted, Kaminsky quoted Garland-Thompson’s call in her book Extraordinary Bodies for “the disabled body [to] move from the realm of the hospital room to the realm of political minority”. This article argues that within contemporary Scottish literature, an example of this movement in action is the work of the queer crip activist and writer Ever Dundas. Set in a dystopian near-future, Dundas’ 2022 novel HellSans makes disability itself the central conceit of a novel which presents a society divided up into groups, those who are and are not make sick by the use of a particular font in government advertising. The article interrogates how Dundas challenges established ideas regarding the “good disabled”, while rooting the novel in radical artistic traditions in which disability itself is harnessed as an act of resistance. |
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Moving from “the Realm of Hospital Room to the Realm of Political Minority”: Ever Dundas’ HellSans and the Radical Contemporary Disability Novel |
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Moving from “the Realm of Hospital Room to the Realm of Political Minority”: Ever Dundas’ HellSans and the Radical Contemporary Disability Novel |
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