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HandiLand: The Crippest Place on Earth
University of Michigan Press, 2019 Cloth: 978-0-472-07420-4 | eISBN: 978-0-472-12571-5 | Paper: 978-0-472-05420-6 Library of Congress Classification PN3443.W54 2019 Dewey Decimal Classification 809.399283087
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
HandiLand looks at young adult novels, fantasy series, graphic memoirs, and picture books of the last 25 years in which characters with disabilities take center stage for the first time. These books take what others regard as weaknesses—for instance, Harry Potter’s headaches or Hazel Lancaster’s oxygen tank—and redefine them as part of the hero’s journey. HandiLand places this movement from sidekick to hero in the political contexts of disability rights movements in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ghana. See other books on: Children's & Young Adult Literature | Earth | Fantasy literature | Wheeler, Elizabeth A. | Young adult fiction See other titles from University of Michigan Press |
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