Disability and Fantasy in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians series

Pilling, Alexandra

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Open access

Authors

Pilling, Alexandra

Date

2020

Supervisor

Katie Ellis

Kerreen Ely-Harper

Type

Thesis

Award

MRes

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Faculty

Humanities

School

School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81886

Collection

Curtin Theses

Abstract

This research explores the question: how is disability constructed in contemporary works of junior fantasy fiction? This research seeks to identify ways in which the use of fantasy in Riordan’s junior fantasy series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, can assist in challenging dominant social and cultural stereotypes of learning disabilities such as ADHD and dyslexia. This research includes a junior fantasy novella which draws upon themes uncovered by the research and analysis.