Marginalization, creative impulse, violence, oppression: examples of mute characters in contemporary literature
Abstract
The present work aims to examine, in some short stories and novels by Italian authors from the late Nineteenth century to the first half of the Twentieth century, the mute character, both male and female, using the theoretical framework provided by disability studies. The complex and multifaceted literary elaborations of disadvantage correspond to specific models of representation of the disabled subject (Gardou), reflecting the ways in which Italian society faces the different one, the other from itself.
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