A Portrayal of Physical Disability in Brigid Kemmerer's Novel A Curse so Dark and Lonely

Abstract

The present study uses psychoanalytic and critical disability theories to analyze Kemmerer’s novel A Curse So Dark and Lonely. It tries to explore how a healthy author depicts the suffering of a disabled character and whether she can depict the protagonist’s suffering physically and psychologically. How does the protagonist differ from many other disabled characters? The study concludes that no matter how the healthy author does, she cannot depict the deep psychological struggle the disabled protagonist endures like disabled authors