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- Title
Fruitcake Weather: Queer/Disabled Community in Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory".
- Authors
St. Pierre, Scott
- 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.
- Subjects
CHRISTMAS Memory, A (Short story); CAPOTE, Truman, 1924-1984; LGBTQ+ people in literature; PEOPLE with disabilities in literature; CHILDREN'S literature
- Publication
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2014, Vol 34, Issue 1, p8
- ISSN
1041-5718
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.18061/dsq.v34i1.3451