The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability

ISBN-13: 9781107458130 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 280 str.

Clare Barker (University of Leeds);Stuart Murray (University of Leeds)

Opis

Working across time periods and critical contexts, this volume provides the most comprehensive overview of literary representations of disability.

Recenzje

'… is an essential resource for scholars, academics and those with personal interest in the depiction and portrayal of disability narratives both historical and contemporary.' Heather Lacey, British Society for Literature and Science Reviews

Spis treści

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.