Abnormal Abilities: Black Women and the Production of Able-Bodied Normalcy in Thylias Moss’s Slave Moth

This article offers an alternative genealogy for disability accounts of normalcy by analyzing American poet Thylias Moss’s 2004 neo-slave narrative in verse, Slave Moth. While disability scholars have historically understood normalcy and able-bodiedness as synonymous, ability is not always normative...

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Main Author: Sarah L. Orsak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2023-12-01
Series:Disability Studies Quarterly
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Online Access:https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/9682