03127 am 22005173u 450 991014025250332120230621141308.09780615883410(CKB)2670000000557882(SSID)ssj0001695503(PQKBManifestationID)16543090(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001695503(PQKBWorkID)15065984(PQKB)25088522(WaSeSS)IndRDA00058345(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37361(EXLCZ)99267000000055788220160829h20132013 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFuckhead /David RawsonBrooklyn, NYpunctum books2013Brooklyn NY :punctum books,2013,©20131 online resource (64 pages) illustrations; PDF, digital file(s)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: MonographPrint version: 0615883419 Includes bibliographical references.What is a fuckhead? David Rawson’s Fuckhead is a surreal exploration of the literature, film, nature and expectations of disability, and of fuckheads in literature and film. Part lyric essay, part fictional memoir, Rawson’s work tells the story of an unnamed narrator whose familial relationships are defined by his VATER syndrome. Abused by his mother and stripped of a voice by his brother’s need to be Tom Cruise via Rain Man, he sets out into a universe of literary tropes. I have always been of the mind that the novelist is allowed access to all experiences, as long as he ultimately has something to say. Plutarch and Samuel Johnson are typing somewhere in the desert of the next world, composing the ultimate collection of biographical criticism, explaining how David Lynch’s entire filmography owes a debt to his club feet. But I and the friends who bought my novel agree the author is dead. The work is particularly interested in the relationship between Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and what the narrator argues is Denis Johnson’s reimagining of that work in the short story “Emergency” (in Johnson’s Jesus’ Son). But in accumulating characters with disabilities as widely diverse as Darth Vader, Benjy of Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, and the TV sitcom Community’s Abed Nadir, Rawson movingly, and with wry humor, articulates the assumptions and clichés faced by persons with disabilities, all the while creating a new family with his unlikely gathering of “fuckheads.”People with disabilitiesPeople with disabilities in motion picturesdisability studiesmemoirFaulknerSteinbeckPeople with disabilities.People with disabilities in motion pictures.Rawson David802592PQKBUkMaJRU9910140252503321Fuckhead1803905UNINA