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Physical Disability
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The stereotype of the supercrip, in the eyes of its critics, represents a sort of overachieving, overdetermined self-enfreakment that distracts from the lived daily reality of most disabled people.
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― Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond
― Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond
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We should bear in mind the supercrip stereotype as a figure obsessively, indeed maniacally, over-compensating for a perceived physical difference or lack, since, as we shall see, this aspect ties in quite neatly with the genre specificities and narratival concerns of so much Silver Age superhero literature.
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― Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond
― Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond
