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March 8, 2026J19

To Calmly Rest: Frances E. W. Harper’s Sensational Black Disability Poetics

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VWVivian Delchamps Wolf

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This article demonstrates how Harper’s poetry reveals disability as resistance in marginalized populations, suggesting new pathways to liberation.

Key Points

  • The article aims to explore Frances E. W. Harper's poetics and their contributions to understanding disability within the contexts of race and structural oppression.
  • Analyzed Harper's poetry through the lens of Black disability studies
  • Examined the intersection of ableism and racism in Harper's work
  • Interpreted themes of pain, fatigue, and care in her poetry
  • Identified how Harper challenges the narrative that Black individuals must always display strength
  • Highlighted the material impacts of racial capitalism on Black bodies
  • Asserted the importance of interdependent care for achieving justice and liberation

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Vivian Delchamps Wolf (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69ada8b2bc08abd80d5bbf72https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2025.a985039
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