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not us and are in the proximity of difference, “they are put into anoppositional category of not-me” (Margrit Shildrick 2-3). RosemarieGarland Thomson writes, “people who are visually different havealways provoked the imagination of their fellow human beings”which is the cause of our misconception of the disabled as monstrous(1, Introduction). Yet, such provocation does not justify the inferiortreatment of the disabled that eventually subjects the disabled tootherness. However necessary it may be for people in society to forman identity based on their interactions with each other, the disableddo not need to be demean.Although I work with the disabled community, I have neverreally asked how my clients feel about the inferiority with which theyare treated in society. On the twenty-third of March two thousandand eleven in the early afternoon, I conducted a mini-interview atthe Finger Lakes Community College campus in Canandaigua NYin which I interviewed two people, whose names will be withheld forprivacy purposes. The first subject is a forty-six year old woman, whois non-ambulatory and has spina-bifida, and the other is a twentythree-yearold young man, who has mild mental retardation andsuffers from infrequent seizures. Both are self-advocates, they haveattended a college experience program at Finger Lakes CommunityCollege and have completed coursework in public speaking and art.I will use ‘the woman’ and ‘the young man’ to refer to the subjects.I also want to make it known that their experiences cannot be usedto account for the inferior treatments of all disabled people. I askedthree questions which are:1. Do you see yourself as different from other people nondisabledor disabled?2. Are you every discriminated against?3. Do you believe that society has done a good job to facilitatepeople with disabilities and if they have what do you believesancia s. huffman 25
can be done to make the disabled develop a sense of belongingwith their community?Although they did not answer all the questions, our discussion wasvery interesting. Base on the mini-interview that I conducted, thewoman and the young man asserted that they do not feel as if theyhave any reason to think that they are different from other people.In fact, they made it known that they went to college and are able tospeak for themselves and those who may not be able to exercise theirrights or speak for themselves. The only concern that they have is thatthey are unable to enjoy all the luxuries of society because society isnot set up to accommodate then. When I asked what they meant bythat, the woman responded that most times she wants to integrateand become a part of a social network in society, but she cannotbecause some facilities are not set up to accommodate her and herwheel chair. During our conversation, the young man advertentlytold me that the non-disabled are jealous of the disabled becausethey are not as multi-talented as the disabled are. When I asked theyoung man to explain what he meant by that, he exclaimed that thedisabled are unique in the way that they are accepting of all and arecapable of doing things that the non-disabled cannot do. I askedhim to tell me what it is that he feels that he and other disabled arecapable of doing well that the non-disabled are incapable of doing.He told me that the disabled are capable of overcoming the barriersand stigmas that society uses to keep them from succeeding. Heexplained that the disabled do that by just being themselves. He alsomentioned that the disabled are being featured in multiple ways,which he feels is an attempt to make them be more valuable.After conferring with these two disabled individuals, I realize thatas non-disabled I too have projected otherness onto the disabled.Like most in society, I have also otherized the disabled because Ihave tried to accommodate the disabled without asking them how26 afternoons of alterity
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Page 4 and 5: Table of ContentsFrom Medieval Mars
Page 6 and 7: From Medieval Marsh Monsters toFutu
Page 8 and 9: imagination, we must first attempt
Page 10 and 11: seed of monstrosity within themselv
Page 12 and 13: essence as a monster, it seems reas
Page 14 and 15: she bore two sons, one from the imp
Page 16 and 17: perhaps, anti-heroes) of the futuri
Page 18 and 19: to watch the murder and mutilation
Page 20 and 21: and modern audiences through their
Page 22 and 23: Works Cited“Bushwhacked.” Firef
Page 24 and 25: Projecting Otherness ontothe Disabl
Page 26 and 27: in any systematic structuration. An
Page 28 and 29: The idea of the monstrous’ vulner
Page 32: they want to be treated. The interv
Page 36: Monstrosity and theIrruption of Rea
Page 39 and 40: describing his fears of this place
Page 41 and 42: stained with sin” (Spearing 221).
Page 43: often and at will to show man somet
Page 46 and 47: What’s Love Got To Do With It?The
Page 48 and 49: story than as the beginning? What f
Page 50 and 51: It is textual content like this tha
Page 52 and 53: through the story as the Green Knig
Page 54 and 55: the first advocating voices for end
Page 56 and 57: “capable of seeing things objecti
Page 58 and 59: Darkness: The True Monster ofLitera
Page 60 and 61: the way they can make us feel, but
Page 62 and 63: not only closes out, extinguishes,
Page 64 and 65: and temptation, most especially for
Page 66 and 67: hours “led to the term ‘night
Page 68 and 69: specifically his relationship to da
Page 70 and 71: humanization of Grendel draws the r
Page 72 and 73: subconscious the message may be. Th
Page 74 and 75: Serial MonstrosityEmily Mastrobatti
Page 76 and 77: is clear that they are monsters and
Page 78 and 79: murderer that he once was. He has b
Page 80 and 81:
of the killing, “When investigato
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ook “contains recipes from the bo
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asks Charles Manson to marry her, t
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Monstrous Mothers andObjectified Da
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and her sisters plot to kill their
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easons for “otherness.” On top
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The original ideas are still intact
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objectified creature. “Cultures o
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Works CitedAcker, P. Horror and the
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Grendel: A Manifestation ofMedieval
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ut never was his physicality hinted
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to wander in the darkness and the c
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Magic could not resurrect Grendel t
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Works CitedBeowulf. Trans. RM Liuzz
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The Monster Under the BedThe Creati
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to procreate but the accepted manif
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Cain had/killed his father’s son
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can, without a doubt, be placed int
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The vagina’s ability to function
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Ed. Barbara K. Gold, et all. Albany
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To understand precisely how states
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a strict delineation between each g
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monstrous and societal rules to fol
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Gawain is willing to accept his mis
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survive, challenge, and defeat. Esp
Page 131 and 132:
governmental standards, then are we
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They Walk Among UsOccupational Viol
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sports and regard our members of th
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modern readers are not part of the
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otherness and disdain for humanity.
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are underpaid and for the most part
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Home and Spatial IdentityPhysical t
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closeness among the people that the
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Into the dark gorge I ventured; the
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the treasures that fill up their ho
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threatened by the very existence of
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and draped in damp, shaggy moss, an
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individual. Home resides within the
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Works CitedArmitage, Simon. Sir Gaw
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