fruitcake weather: queer/disabled community in truman capote's "a christmas memory"

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2014
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Abstract
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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http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3451
Keywords
intellectual disability sexuality nostalgia

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