From Freaks to Savants: Disability and hegemony from The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) to Sling Blade (1997)

Disability and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 695-707

  Whittington Walsh, Fiona ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0036775943     PISSN: 09687599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0968759022000010461     Document Type: Article

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