Capacità nascoste. A reflection on supercrips
Abstract
This paper proposes some reflections on disability, in particular on supercrips (i.e. the super-disabled), analyzing the twenty-five stories of Capacità nascoste. La prima antologia diversamente thriller (2012) by Sergio Rilletti and Elio Marracci. In the prismatic and multifaceted configuration of the collection which aims at “a new way of showing disability” (Rilletti 2019), disability is instrumental in addressing the various conditions and different profiles of characters with disabilities as well as the multiple settings, themes and genres. By deviating from stereotypes, as well as focusing on the person and granting agency to the protagonists, a partial misalignment from the typical rhetoric on the purely heroic or inspirational ‘super’ disability can be detected.
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