Disability in Wonderland : Health and Normativity in Speculative Utopias.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sandino, Amanda Martin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disabilities in literature.

Disabilities in motion pictures.

Utopias in literature.

Utopias in motion pictures.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2023.

Summary:

"Adult-directed utopian fiction has historically rejected depictions of persons with disabilities, underrepresenting a community that comprises an estimated 15% of the world's population. From the earliest stories of utopias written for and about children, however, persons with disabilities have been included in abundance, and are central to classic narratives like The Wizard of Oz and Winnie the Pooh. In a perfect world centered on children and their caretakers, these works argue, characters with a diverse range of bodies and minds must flourish. Spanning from Lewis Carroll's 1865 Alice in Wonderland to Jordan Peele's 2019 film Us, this examination of the wonderland demonstrates the role that bodily and neurological diversity plays in an ever-popular subgenre"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Preface

Introduction

1. Crip Futurity and Literary Utopias

2. Finding Criptopia in Baum's Oz Series

3. Middle Era Wonderlands, A Turn to the Dark Side

4. Alienation and Charlie and the Chocolate Factor

5. Nostalgia, Fan Fiction, and the Wayward Children Series

6. The Underland and the Rejection of the Medical Model of Disability

7. Alice in the Underland

Conclusions

Chapter Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Sandino, Amanda Martin Disability in Wonderland

ISBN:

9781476650203