DISABILITY, INTERSECTIONALITY AND IDENTITY: ONE LITTLE FINGER BY MALINI CHIB AND FLIGHT WITHOUT SIGHT BY PREETI MONGA


Purna Chandra Haldar
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Kalyani Mahavidyalaya, Nadia, West Bengal
Abstract
The Concept of the terms, ‘ability’ and ‘disability’ stands on a controversial ground since time immemorial. Human beings with different physical characteristics have been recognized with different identities or names as ‘abled’, ‘disabled’, ‘deformed’, ‘impaired’, ‘abnormal’, ‘para-normal’, eunuch’, ‘queer’, ‘crip’, ‘dwarf’, and transgender’, and more derogatively as ‘handicapped’. Persons with any kind of physical or mental impairment are instantly identified as different and relegated from all privileges. It is a social as well as psychological notion that discriminate those people with impairments and are identified differently, and mere rights of living as human being are deprived. Towards the end of the 20th century, disability studies occupy a vibrant place in literary discourse that not only presents the deplorable conditions of the disabled but boldly asserts their ‘ableism within their disability’ and voices against the traditional negative attitude. In recent times, disability studies have entered and challenged against ableism. The present paper tends to explore the fights against disability through Intersectionality and securing identity in stereotypical society as reflected in the autobiographical stores of One Little Finger by Malini Chib and Flight without Sight by Preeti Monga, both the figures challenge against stigma of disability and challenge the social norms.
Keywords: Ability, Disability, Crip, Transgender, Intersectionality, Ableism, Stereotypical.
Journal Name :
EPRA International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (IJMR)

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Published on : 2025-02-18

Vol : 11
Issue : 2
Month : February
Year : 2025
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