Disability between Healing and Cure: Curanderismo and Medical Treatment in Rudolfo A. Anaya Tortuga | ||||
| مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب | ||||
| Article 6, Volume 24, Issue 3, April 2023, Page 166-179 PDF (328.5 K) | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jssa.2023.196799.1481 | ||||
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Mohammed Ali Sumili1; Muhammed Subhi Salama  2
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| 1جامعة جازان | ||||
| 2قسم اللغة الانجليزية- کلية الاداب والعلوالانسانية- جامعة جازان- السعودية | ||||
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| The medical model of disability deeply influences people's reactions to disability by emphasizing the need for cure. Accordingly, normalizing disabled bodies, through cure, has been a key feature of most narratives addressing disability. The exclusionary practices of normative discourses hindered viewing disability as a bodily variation. This paper examines Rudolfo A. Anaya's deployment of disability in his novel Tortuga (1979). It explores the interplay between curandersimo and modern medicine as two interrelated curative discourses. The paper argues that because normalizing the body is a narrative end, Anaya falls short in his attempts to negotiate ableist ideals through curandersimo's holistic approach to healing. It argues that Anaya adopts an ableist ideological framework in his representation of disability through 1) emphasizing the need for a cure, 2) associating masculinity with the ability to walk, 3) the isolation of the hospital patients from society, and 4) an ambivalent attitude towards assisted suicide. | ||||
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| Keywords: disability; cure; Rudolfo Anya; medical model; curendersis | ||||
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Anaya, Rudolfo A. Tortuga. Editorial Justa Publications, Berkeley, Calif, 1979.
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