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Abstract
Andalusia, the Home of Flannery O’Connor (Andalusia Farm) is a writer’s house museum located in Milledgeville, Georgia, that interpret the life of Flannery O’Connor. O’Connor’s fiction often explored the grotesque through disabled or racially, economically, or socially marginalized characters. At twenty-five, she acquired systemic lupus erythematosus, a chronic autoimmune disease which limited her mobility and required her to move to Andalusia Farm with her mother for care. Although her work pre-dates the contemporary disability rights movement, she has become an influential voice in disability studies as a writer of disabilities and a writer with disabilities.This thesis explores the interpretation of disability and chronic illness through an analysis of Andalusia Farm.