The Routledge companion to literature and disability / edited by Alice Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Alice.

Contributor:

Hall, Alice (Literature professor), editor.

Series:

Routledge companions.

Routledge companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disabilities in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (413 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability brings together some of the most influential and important contemporary perspectives in this growing field. The book traces the history of the field and locates literary disability studies in the wider context of activism and theory. It introduces debates about definitions of disability and explores intersectional approaches in which disability is understood in relation to gender, race, class, sexuality, nationality and ethnicity. Divided broadly into sections according to literary genre, this is an important resource for those interested in exploring and deepening their knowledge of the field of literature and disability studies.

Contents:

Disability in indigenous literature / Siobhan Senier

Disability in black speculative fiction / Sami Schalk

t4t : towards a crip ethics of trans literary criticism / Cameron Awkward Rich

Challenging photocentrism : writing signs and bilingual deaf literatures / Kristen Harmon

"Here there be monsters" : mapping novel representations of the relationship between disability and monstrosity in recent graphic narratives and comic books / Chris Foss

Spectrality, strangeness and stigmaphilia : gothic and critical disability studies / Sara Wasson

Contemporary horror and disability : adaptations and active readers / Petra Kuppers

From "changelings" to "libtards" : intellectual disability in the eighteenth century and beyond / D. Christopher Gabbard

Crip gothic : affiliations of disability and queerness in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764) / Jason Farr

"Of wonderful use to everyone" : disability and the marriage plot in the nineteenthcentury novel / Clare Walker Gore

Afro-modernism and black disability studies / Jess Waggoner

"What's the matter with him?" : Intellectual disability, Jewishness, and stereotype in Bernard Malamud's "Idiots First" / Howard Sklar

Metaphorical medicine : disability in anglophone Indian diction / Stephanie Yorke

Disability and contemporary literature : antinormative narratives of embodiment / David Mitchell

Poet and beggar : Edmund White's Blindness / Vanessa Warne

Deafness and modernism / Rebecca Sanchez

The "fury of loving joyfully" : Amelia Rosselli's War variations / Elizabeth Leake

Getting there : pain poetics and Canadian literature / Shane Neilson

Disability in contemporary poetry / Johanna Emeney

Disability poetry : testing the waters of definition / Michael Northen

Canadian disability dramaturgies / Kirsty Johnston

Disability and the American stage musical / Samuel Yates

Of scapegoats and men : Shane Meadow's Dead man's shoes and the politics of learning disability / Anna Harpin

Disability, drama, and the problem of intersectional invisibility / Ann M. Fox

Puppets, players and the poetics of vulnerability : Hijinx's Meet Fred and new directions in the theatres of learning disability / Matt Hargrave

Sex, death, and the welfare check : rhythms of disability and sexuality in David Wojnarowicz's Close to the knives / Leon J. Hilton

Disability, narrative, embodied aesthetics and cross-media arts / Stella Bolaki

A grammar of touch : interdependencies of person, place, thing / Shannon Walters

Psychographics : graphic memoirs and psychiatric disability / Elizabeth J. Donaldson

Challenging the neurotypical : autism, contemporary literature and digital textualities / Hannah Tweed.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-69967-9

1-351-69968-7

1-315-17304-2

9781315173047

OCLC:

1153312968