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Disability in science fiction Representations of technology as cure /

In this groundbreaking collection, twelve international scholars - with backgrounds in disability studies, English and world literature, classics, and history - discuss the representation of dis/ability, medical "cures," technology, and the body in science fiction.

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Group Author: Allan, Kathryn.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Science fiction > History and criticism.
People with disabilities in literature.
Technology in literature.
Human body in literature.
Mind and body in literature.
Literary theory.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Literature.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137343437
Summary: In this groundbreaking collection, twelve international scholars - with backgrounds in disability studies, English and world literature, classics, and history - discuss the representation of dis/ability, medical "cures," technology, and the body in science fiction.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9781137343420, 2013.
Carrier Form: 224 p.
ISBN: 9781137343420
9781137343437 :
1137343435 :
CLC: I106.4
Contents: Introduction: Reading Disability in Science Fiction-- Kathryn Allan PART I: THEORIZING DISABILITY IN SCIENCE FICTION 1. Tools to Help You Think: Intersections between Disability Studies and the Writings of Samuel R. Delany-- Joanne Woiak and Hioni Karamanos 2. The Metamorphic Body in Science Fiction: From Prosthetic Correction to Utopian Enhancement-- Antonio Fernando Cascais 3. Freaks and Extraordinary Bodies: Disability as Generic Marker in John Varley's "Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo--" Ria Cheyne 4. The Many Voices of Charlie Gordon: On the Representation of Intellectual Disability in Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon-- Howard Sklar PART II: HUMAN BOUNDARIES AND PROSTHETIC BODIES 5. Prosthetic Bodies: The Convergence of Disability, Technology and Capital in Peter Watts' Blindsight and Ian McDonald's River of Gods-- Netty Matar 6. The Bionic Woman: Machine or Human?-- Donna Binns 7. Star Wars, Limb-loss, and What it Means to be Human-- Ralph Covino 8. Animal and Alien Bodies as Prostheses: Reframing Disability in Avatar and How to Train Your Dragon-- Leigha McReynolds PART III: CURE NARRATIVES FOR THE (POST)HUMAN FUTURE 9. "Great Clumsy Dinosaurs": The Disabled Body in the Posthuman World-- Brent Walter Cline 10. Disabled Hero, Sick Society: Sophocles' Philoctetes and Robert Silverberg's The Man in the Maze-- Robert W. Cape, Jr. 11. "Everything is always changing": Autism, Normalcy, and Progress in Elizabeth Moon's The Speed of Dark and Nancy Fulda's "Movement--" Christy Tidwell 12. Life without Hope? Huntington's Disease and Genetic Futurity-- Gerry Canavan.

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