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Reimagining Disability: Nalo Hopkinson’s Sister Mine
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Reading Nalo Hopkinson’s seventh speculative fiction, Sister Mine (2013), from a disability studies perspective, this paper examines the ways in which the novel takes issue with the oppressive system of ableism that privileges the able body as the norm by which the disabled body is defined as deviant and lacking ability and provocatively reimagines disability as an alternative way of knowing and living in the world. This paper demonstrates that Sister Mine is a disability narrative that challenges what Lennard J. Davis calls “the hegemony of normalcy” as well as the kill-or-cure plot typical in mainstream popular disability narratives. Representing the conjoined twin sisters (Makeda and Abby) and their human mother and deity father as a family disabled by the ableist norms set by Afro-Caribbean deities, the novel reveals and interrogates the ideology of ability that stigmatizes one’s identity, value, and status. With the main character/narrator Makeda’s struggles with her disabilities resulting from her being both a conjoined twin and a half-god and half-human without mojo, the novel problematizes such normative notions as ability, disability, and dependency. Makeda’s quest for her mojo, which she believes will enable her to become a normal demigod, actually leads her to a new understanding of that power as giving. In so doing, Hopkinson suggests a non-ableist view of disability that acknowledges the inevitable human vulnerability and dependency and thus redefines ability as participation into interdependency and mutual responsibilities.
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Reading Nalo Hopkinson’s seventh speculative fiction, Sister Mine (2013), from a disability studies perspective, this paper examines the ways in which the novel takes issue with the oppressive system of ableism that privileges the able body as the norm by which the disabled body is defined as deviant and lacking ability and provocatively reimagines disability as an alternative way of knowing and living in the world. This paper demonstrates that Sister Mine is a disability narrative that challenges what Lennard J. Davis calls “the hegemony of normalcy” as well as the kill-or-cure plot typical in mainstream popular disability narratives. Representing the conjoined twin sisters (Makeda and Abby) and their human mother and deity father as a family disabled by the ableist norms set by Afro-Caribbean deities, the novel reveals and interrogates the ideology of ability that stigmatizes one’s identity, value, and status. With the main character/narrator Makeda’s struggles with her disabilities resulting from her being both a conjoined twin and a half-god and half-human without mojo, the novel problematizes such normative notions as ability, disability, and dependency. Makeda’s quest for her mojo, which she believes will enable her to become a normal demigod, actually leads her to a new understanding of that power as giving. In so doing, Hopkinson suggests a non-ableist view of disability that acknowledges the inevitable human vulnerability and dependency and thus redefines ability as participation into interdependency and mutual responsibilities.
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