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Physical Disability
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We should bear in mind the supercrip stereotype as a figure obsessively, indeed maniacally, over-compensating for a perceived physical difference or lack, since, as we shall see, this aspect ties in quite neatly with the genre specificities and narratival concerns of so much Silver Age superhero literature.
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― Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond
― Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond
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If someone's personhood is in doubt (or seen as lacking), all the easier to direct death wishes at them. When a tiny minority of them transgresses, their crimes of violence only confirm their abjection from the human [. . .] Anxiety, threat, dread, fear, and prejudice feed into the explanatory mechanisms that construct them as somehow beyond human, beyond mercy.
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― Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond
― Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond
