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- Title
Metaphors of monstrosity: The werewolf as disability and illness in Harry Potter and Jatta.
- Authors
Weaver, Roslyn
- Abstract
The article focuses on considering several positive and negative implications of associating disability and illness with the werewolf, a traditionally monstrous creature. It highlights two literary works "Harry Potter" and "Jatta" that succeed in critiquing society's perceptions about normality and difference. It notes that the social figure of werewolves depicts that society's reaction to disability and illness can be ignorant and misplaced.
- Subjects
WEREWOLVES in literature; WEREWOLVES -- Fiction; HARRY Potter book series; JATTA (Book); SOCIAL norms; DISABILITIES
- Publication
Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, 2010, Vol 20, Issue 2, p69
- ISSN
1837-4530
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.21153/pecl2010vol20no2art1146