Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Barker, Clare

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This Companion analyzes the representation of disability in literatures in English, including American and postcolonial writing, across all major time periods and through a variety of critical approaches. Through the alternative ideas of mind and embodiment generated by physiological and psychological impairments, an understanding of disability narrative changes the way we read literature. With contributions from major figures in literary disability studies, The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability covers a wide range of impairments, including cognitive difference, neurobehavioral conditions, and mental and chronic illnesses. This book shows how disability demands innovation in literary form and aesthetics, challenges the notion of a human 'norm' in the writing of character, and redraws the ways in which writing makes meaning of the broad spectrum of humanity. It will be a key resource for students and teachers of disability and literary studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108363532
• Artikelnr.: 50217164

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: on reading disability in literature Clare Barker and
Stuart Murray; Part I. Across Literatures: 2. Monsters, saints, and
sinners: disability in Medieval literature Edward Wheatley; 3. Early modern
literature and disability studies Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston
Wood; 4. Disability and deformity: function impairment and aesthetics in
the long eighteenth century Essaka Joshua; 5. Embodying affliction in
nineteenth-century fiction Martha Stoddard Holmes; 6. Paralyzed modernities
and biofutures: bodies and minds in modern literature Michael Davidson; 7.
The ambiguities of inclusion: disability in contemporary literature Stuart
Murray; 8. 'Radiant affliction': disability narratives in postcolonial
literature Clare Barker; Part II. Across Critical Methods: 9. Disability
and the edges of intersectionality Alison Kafer and Eunjung Kim; 10. The
world-making potential of contemporary crip/queer literary and cultural
production Robert McRuer; 11. Race and disability in US literature Michelle
Jarman; 12. Disability and women's writing Sami Schalk; 13. Disability in
genre fiction Ria Cheyne; 14. Signifying selves: disability and life
writing G. Thomas Couser; 15. Disability rhetorics Jay Dolmage; 16.
Afterword Petra Kuppers.