The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability

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

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.

Autorentext

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).

Inhalt

Introduction to The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability; Part I: New Directions in the Field; Disability in Indigenous Literature ; Disability in Black Speculative Fiction; t4t: Towards a Crip Ethics of Trans Literary Criticism; Challenging Photocentrism: Writing Signs and Bilingual Deaf Literatures; ""Here There Be Monsters"": Mapping Novel Representations of the Relationship between Disability and Monstrosity in Recent Graphic Narratives and Comic Books; Spectrality, Strangeness, and Stigmaphilia: Gothic and Critical Disability Studies; Contemporary Horror and Disability: Adaptations and Active Readers; Part II: Novels and Short Stories; From ""Changelings"" to ""Libtards"": Intellectual Disability in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond; Crip Gothic: Affiliations of Disability and Queerness in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764); ""Of wonderful use to everyone"": Disability and the Marriage Plot in the Nineteenth-Century Novel; Afro-modernism and Black Disability Studies; ""What's the Matter with Him?"": Intellectual Disability, Jewishness, and Stereotype in Bernard Malamud's ""Idiots First""; Metaphoric.