The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hall, Alice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book introduces debates about definitions of disability and explores intersectional approaches to disability and gender, race, class, sexuality and ethnicity. Divided broadly into sections according to literary genre, this is an important resource for those interested in exploring the field of literature and disability studies

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351699679
• Artikelnr.: 59327785

Autorenporträt

Alice Hall teaches in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and has previously worked at the University of Nottingham and the University of Paris (III and VII). Alice is the author of Disability and Modern Fiction: Faulkner, Morrison, Coetzee and the Nobel Prize for Literature (2012) and Literature and Disability: Contemporary Critical Thought (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability



Alice Hall



Part I: New Directions in the Field

1. Disability in Indigenous Literature




Siobhan Senier




2. Disability in Black Speculative Fiction




Sami Schalk




3. t4t: Towards a Crip Ethics of Trans Literary Criticism




Cameron Awkward-Rich




4. Challenging Photocentrism: Writing Signs and Bilingual Deaf Literatures




Kristen Harmon




5. "Here There Be Monsters": Mapping Novel Representations of the Relationship between Disability and Monstrosity in Recent Graphic Narratives and Comic Books




Chris Foss




6. Spectrality, Strangeness, and Stigmaphilia: Gothic and Critical Disability Studies




Sara Wasson




7. Contemporary Horror and Disability: Adaptations and Active Readers




Petra Kuppers



Part II: Novels and Short Stories


8. From "Changelings" to "Libtards": Intellectual Disability in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond




D. Christopher Gabbard




9. Crip Gothic: Affiliations of Disability and Queerness in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764)




Jason S. Farr




10. "Of wonderful use to everyone": Disability and the Marriage Plot in the Nineteenth-Century Novel




Clare Walker Gore




11. Afro-modernism and Black Disability Studies




Jess Waggoner




12. "What's the Matter with Him?": Intellectual Disability, Jewishness, and Stereotype in Bernard Malamud's "Idiots First"




Howard Sklar




13. Metaphorical Medicine: Disability in Anglophone Indian Fiction




Stephanie Yorke


14. Disability and Contemporary Literature: Antinormative Narratives of Embodiment




David T. Mitchell

Part III: Poetry


15. Poet and Beggar: Edmund White's Blindness


Vanessa Warne




16. Deafness and Modernism




Rebecca Sanchez




17. The "Fury of Loving Joyfully": Amelia Rosselli's War Variations


Elizabeth Leake




18. Getting There: Pain Poetics and Canadian Literature




Shane Neilson




19. Disability in Contemporary Poetry




Johanna Emeney




20. Disability Poetry: Testing the Waters of Definition




Michael Northen



Part IV: Drama


21. Canadian Disability Dramaturgies




Kirsty Johnston




22. Disability and the American Stage Musical




Samuel Yates




23. Of Scapegoats and Men: Shane Meadow's Dead Man's Shoes and the Politics of Learning Disability




Anna Harpin




24. Disability, Drama, and the Problem of Intersectional Invisibility




Ann M. Fox




25. Puppets, Players and the Poetics of Vulnerability: Hijinx's Meet Fred and New Directions in the Theatres of Learning Disability




Matt Hargrave



Part V: Life Writing


26. Sex, Death, and the Welfare Check: Rhythms of Disability and Sexuality in David Wojnarowicz's Close to the Knives


Leon J. Hilton




27. Disability Narrative, Embodied Aesthetics and Cross-Media Arts




Stella Bolaki




28. A Grammar of Touch: Interdependencies of Person, Place, Thing




Shannon Walters




29. Psychographics: Graphic Memoirs and Psychiatric Disability




Elizabeth J. Donaldson




30. Challenging the Neurotypical: Autism, Contemporary Literature, and Digital Textualities

Hannah Tweed

Rezensionen

Titles in the "Routledge Companions" series introduce scholarly perspectives on particular subjects. The present volume surveys scholarship written at the intersection of literary studies, disability studies, and related fields. In her introduction, Hall (English, Univ. of York, UK) proposes that "literary and theoretical writing about disability provides ... a means of examining the narratives [that] shape and [give] meaning" to life. Hall presents the essays in five parts. Prioritizing areas "traditionally under-researched in disability studies," part 1 includes essays that break new ground or reconfigure existing critical modes. For example, Siobhan Senier argues that disability among indigenous peoples "cannot be thought apart from tribal sovereignty and land claims." In another essay, Cameron Awkward-Rich conducts a close reading of the terms disability and transgender, bringing into focus the "uneven" relationship between them and their associated disciplines. The rest of the 30 essays are arranged by genre (novels and short stories, poetry, drama, life writing). Standouts include Rebecca Sanchez's "Deafness and Modernism" and Samuel Yates's "Disability and the American Stage Musical" (these titles evince the companion's wide-sweeping scope). Whether used as a textbook, secondary resource, or general reading, this vital companion offers myriad entry points into a dynamic, evolving field of study.

J. D. Harding, Saint Leo University, USA. Choice: Highly Recommended.

"This anthology offers an introduction to the developing canon of disability literature (we are introduced to many works in the genres of fiction, poetry, drama, life writing, and graphic narratives) and a diversity of literary criticism (scholars in this collection employ critical disability studies, trans studies, gothic studies, modernism, feminism, afro-modernism, gender, race, nationality, class, ethnicity-the critical approaches are varied and demonstrate, in my opinion, how intersectional and interdisciplinary conversations of disability literature can be). Scholars reading this anthology are given an excellent overview of current conversations in the field and invitations to join in research and discussion... The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability is an engaging companion to excellent works in disability literature, and I hope it sparks many new conversations and insights."

Liz Whiteacre, The University of Indianapolis, USA, Wordgathering