Editing Cleft lip and cleft palate (section)

===Works of fiction===
The eponymous hero of [[J. M. Coetzee]]'s 1983 novel ''[[Life & Times of Michael K]]'' has a cleft lip that is never corrected. In the 1920 novel ''[[Growth of the Soil]],'' by Norwegian writer [[Knut Hamsun]], Inger (wife of the main character) has an uncorrected cleft lip which puts heavy limitations on her life, even causing her to kill her own child, who is also born with a cleft lip. The protagonist of the 1924 novel ''[[Precious Bane]]'', by English writer [[Mary Webb]], is a young woman living in 19th-century rural [[Shropshire]] who eventually comes to feel that her deformity is the source of her spiritual strength. The book was later adapted for television by both the [[BBC]] and [[ORTF]] in France. Similarly, the main character in [[Graham Greene]]'s 1936 crime noir novel ''[[A Gun for Sale]]'', Raven, has a cleft lip which he is sensitive about, and is described as "an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds". In the 1976 [[Patricia A. McKillip]] novel ''[[The Night Gift]]'', one of the high-school aged protagonists is shy because she has a cleft lip, but learns to have more confidence in herself.

In the first edition of ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'', one of the people Gilderoy Lockhart stole credit from was a witch with a harelip who banished the Bandon Banshee. In later editions, this was changed to a witch with a hairy chin.<ref>{{cite web | vauthors = VanderArk S |work=The Harry Potter Lexicon |title=Edits and Changes to the Text of CS |date=June 6, 2017 |url=https://www.hp-lexicon.org/edits-changes-text-cs/ |access-date=September 12, 2020}}</ref>

In chapter 26 of [[Mark Twain]]'s ''[[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'', Huck Finn meets the three Wilks sisters, Mary Jane, Susan, and Joanna. Joanna is described as, "the one who gives herself to good works and has a hare-lip." As a form of offensive [[synecdoche]], Huck Finn refers to Joanna as "the hare-lip" rather than by her name.

Cleft lip and cleft palate are often portrayed negatively in popular culture. Examples include [[Oddjob]], the secondary villain of the [[James Bond]] novel [[Goldfinger (novel)|''Goldfinger'']] by [[Ian Fleming]] ([[Goldfinger (film)|the film adaptation]] does not mention this but leaves it implied) and serial killer [[Francis Dolarhyde]] in the novel [[Red Dragon (novel)|''Red Dragon'']] and its screen adaptations, ''[[Manhunter (film)|Manhunter]]'', ''[[Red Dragon (2002 film)|Red Dragon]]'', and ''[[Hannibal (TV series)|Hannibal]]''.<ref>{{cite web| vauthors =  Harfield TD |title=The Monster Without: Red Dragon, the Cleft-Lip, and the Politics of Recognition|url=http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/mso/hid/hid5/harfield%20paper.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221114051/http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/mso/hid/hid5/harfield%20paper.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 21, 2014|access-date=February 5, 2014}}</ref> The portrayal of enemy characters with cleft lips and cleft palates, dubbed mutants, in the 2019 video game ''[[Rage 2]]'' left Chris Plante of ''[[Polygon (website)|Polygon]]'' wondering if the condition would ever be portrayed positively.<ref>{{cite web |last=Plante |first=Chris |title=When I asked about Rage 2's worst character, I got an unexpected response |url=https://www.polygon.com/e3/2018/6/14/17462430/rage-2-interview-e3-2018-id-avalanche |publisher=[[Polygon (website)|Polygon]] |date=June 14, 2018 |access-date=May 15, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | vauthors = Plante C |title=Rage 2 is a fun game that makes me feel like garbage |url=https://www.polygon.com/2019/5/13/18617783/rage-2-impressions-characters-enemies-mutants |publisher=[[Polygon (website)|Polygon]] |date=May 13, 2019 |access-date=May 15, 2019}}</ref>