fruitcake weather: queer/disabled community in truman capote's "a christmas memory"
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2014
This essay argues for a politically-inflected re-evaluation of Truman Capote’s classic holiday story “A Christmas Memory.” It proposes, in contrast to prevailing readings of the tale as a de-politicized, nostalgic children’s story, that the text makes a compelling case for politically engaged, resistant community building by its disabled and queer characters, an important action rooted in the shared political interests of queer and disabled people.
Keywords: intellectual disability, sexuality, community action, nostalgia, literary criticism
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| Authors | ;Scott St. Pierre |
| Journal | brazilian journal of pharmacognosy |
| Year | 2014 |
| DOI | 10.18061/dsq.v34i1.3451 |
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