Sublimation in Samantha Abeel’s My Thirteenth Winter with reference to Reach for the Moon

  • Jemima Joshuin T

Abstract

 Disability studies is one of the emerging branches in literature. It takes its origin from Queer theory and Postcolonialism. It came into existence in the 1990s, after the passage of the Americans with Disability Act. Disability in literature is not yet widely talked about and Cognitive impairment and their stereotypes are often considered a taboo in India and are not represented widely like physical disabilities. Samantha Abeels My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir, talks about her life as a person and a student with Dyscalculia. It gives a brief account of the necessity to mask her identity and her helplessness in social gatherings. As the cognitive impairments are not visible to the public, it becomes a necessity to mask her identity and pretend to be like the other so-called normal beings to cope with the Ableist society in which they live. The present paper tries to focus on the famous psychological defence mechanism, Sublimation, its causes and effects in the Memoir and the Creative Narrative Reach for the Moon.

Published
2019-11-15
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Articles