Loss of Identity and Alienation in Jean Dominique Bauby’s The Diving Bell and Lisa Genova's Left Neglected | ||||
| مجلة کلية الآداب جامعة الفيوم | ||||
| Article 2, Volume 14, العدد 1 (اللغويات) - Serial Number 2, January 2022, Page 37-67 PDF (602.31 K) | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jfafu.2022.160303 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| غدي حمدي | ||||
| کلية الآداب - جامعة الفيوم | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Impairment, whether gradual or traumatic, congenital or adventitious, can have an influence on one's own view of the world and his values. Disability has its impact on the disabled as it alienates him from people around him. The alienation that is caused by an impairment is undifferentiated from the one that happens because of other situations of social abuse. There is a relationship between the experience of living with an impairment and the disabled's selfperceptions. This experience helps in the formation of the disabled's identity. This identity has been enforced by the societal prejudices and the personal incapability. These conflicting feelings of alienation and loss of one's own identity are discussed in Lisa Genova's novel Left Neglected and Jean Dominique Bauby's disability memoir The Diving Bell. They show how a sudden accident causes a life-changing collision and how high- achieving people struggle to rebuild themselves and their lives | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Disability Studies; Psychology; loss of identity; and alienation | ||||
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