Abstract: A branch of disability studies, rather than the biological aspect of the body, illness and disability, is concerned with disability representations, the politics of care and body care, symptomatic reading (understanding, interpretation and evaluation) and its medical, moral, social and cultural models. In ableism discourse, disability is generally characterized by negative stereotypes. Most of the proverbs, ironies, folklore, stories contain negative schemas and metaphors about disability. In ableism discursive systems, disability is influenced by moral and religious (punishment, sin), political, cultural and ideological concepts and is associated with concepts such as shame, othering, abjection and exclusion, evil, ugliness and sin. In the stories of One Thousand and One Nights, the identity of disabled people is generally associated with concepts such as evilness, fear, shame, pity, humiliation, mockery and inauspiciousness, touching the taboos, spells, and magic. In all over the book, we can recognize marked and grotesque bodies. In most stories, positive characters and heroes are beautiful and physically healthy, while negative characters, anti-heroes, afārīt, and genies are described as having physical defects. The research method of this article is discourse analysis, although theories related to the body, illness and disability have also been used due to the text and the problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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