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\nComposition Forum 39, Summer 2018  \nThe Rhetorical Stakes of Cure  \nSidney Jones  \nAbstract: This review of Eli Clare’s Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure (2017) and Eunjung Kim’s Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea (2017) shows how both Clare and Kim critique the politics of cure in the U.S. and Korea. Specifically, these texts reveal the (at times) violent ways that cure has been forced on disabled bodies, and unpack longstanding debates within the political, cultural, and medical sectors about eliminating disability at all costs, and refusing cure. Although both works are oriented towards the field of disability studies, this review highlights the intersectional aspects of both texts and the concrete, practical ways that rhetoric and composition scholars and teachers can benefit from this discourse.  \nClare, Eli. Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure. Duke University Press, 2017. 218 pp.  \nKim, Eunjung. Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea. Duke University Press, 2017. 300 pp.  \nAs a type 1 diabetic who specializes in disability studies, I have a precarious relationship with the field that I work within. I have always used my work as both a scholar, and a teacher, to advocate for disability rights and to reveal the underlying discriminatory bias behind common representations of disability. For the sake of clarity, I use and define disability in accordance with the “social model of disability” that is largely endorsed within disability studies. This model defines disability, and the culturally negative stigma attached to it, as social constructs. Furthermore, the social model asserts that the social, political, and economic barriers put in place for those with physical and mental impairments, transform these conditions into debilitating disabilities. Thus, these impairments, in and of themselves, are not necessarily disabling liabilities.  \nIn my own courses on disability studies and literature, I try to get students to consider the ways that their previous notions of disability have been shaped by these socially-ingrained biases. However, once I separate the work that Ido from my personal life, I find myself dealing with a contradictory longing for a cure for diabetes, and a desire to no longer be bothered with counting carbs, pricking my body with needles every day, and being dependent on an all-tooexpensive hormone just to stay alive. I have always struggled with the question of how I can be an advocate for disability rights, when sometimes the desire to no longer deal with my own disability surfaces in my mind? How do we make sense of these contradictions? Is there any way to reconcile the historically relentless effort to eliminate disability and the anti-cure camp that fights for self-love amongst the disabled, inclusion, and equal access?  \nEli Clare and Eunjung Kim tackle these issues around narratives of cure in their respective monographs, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure (2017) and Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea (2017) . There are some impulses within disability studies to criticize and reject the narrative of cure because of the history of disabled people being exploited, victimized, and even killed for the sake of cure. However Clare and Kim both do an excellent job of teasing out the nuances and finding the space between cure and anti-cure narratives, instead of taking a definitive stance in either camp.  \nAlthough Brilliant Imperfection and Curative Violence aren’t explicitly geared towards those who specialize in rhetoric and composition studies, composition and rhetoric teachers, scholars, and program administrators can certainly benefit from these works. For Composition Forum readers who are invested in the scholarly","cbCaiezv2mQZkGqS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiezv2mQZkGqS","pdf",67534,"English","# Composition Forum 39, Summer 2018\n## The Rhetorical Stakes of Cure\n## Abstract\n## Works Cited\n## Author’s Perspective\n## Cure vs. Anti-Cure Narratives\n## Relevance to Rhetoric and Composition Studies\n## Power, Language, and Legibility\n## Connections to Other Scholarship","[{\"question\":\"What central argument does the review make about cure in Clare and Kim’s books?\",\"answer\":\"The review argues that both Clare and Kim critique how cure politics operate, revealing how cure can be imposed on disabled bodies and tied to longstanding attempts to eliminate disability at all costs.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the review characterize disability within the author’s framework?\",\"answer\":\"The author uses the “social model of disability,” viewing impairment and the disabling effects as produced by social, political, and economic barriers rather than by impairments alone.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the review claim the books matter for rhetoric and composition scholars?\",\"answer\":\"It emphasizes that the works illuminate how language and power shape which bodies become “legible” in an ableist society, offering useful tools for studying rhetoric, embodiment, and discourse.\"}]","The Rhetorical Stakes of Cure - Editorial Review | PDF",1792088018]