Towards Excellence

(ISSN No. 0974-035X)
(An indexed refereed & peer-reviewed journal of higher education)
UGC-MALAVIYA MISSION TEACHER TRAINING CENTRE GUJARAT UNIVERSITY

‘INCLUSIVITY’ AND ‘AFFECTIVE EMPATHY’: A READING OF CHIB’S ONE LITTLE FINGER IN DISABILITY STUDIES

Authors:

V. Kousalya, Marie Aruna

Abstract:

Disability Studies, have gained gushy prominence in the contemporary era, but if we do scrutinize whether differently abled have attained their significance, freedom, equality and accessibility similar to the able-bodied, it turns out to be a debatable concept because the naked truth is thunderous ‘no’. The lack of inclusive mentality among able-bodied who set norms as a ruling class is the foremost cause to circumscribe differently abled towards the fringes of passivity. The intervention of medical humanities is indeed victorious in deflating the superstitious beliefs associated with it, but in turn it throttles the capability of differently abled under rigorous medicalization of biomedical cognition. This paper is an endeavor to study and analyze the operation of biomedical knowledge and physician and able-bodied politics in generalization of differently abled and how it distorts their construction of personal identity and sociability. Set against this backdrop, it applies the theories of affective empathy, intersubjectivity and narrative humility in reconnoitering the life, tribulations and trauma of differently abled by taking Chib’s One Little Finger as a specimen. 

Keywords:

disability, humility, empathy, medical humanities, abstraction, prejudice etc.                                 

Vol & Issue:

VOL.14, ISSUE No.1, March 2022