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.
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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
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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).
Introduction to The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability
Alice Hall
Part I: New Directions in the Field
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
Part II: Novels and Short Stories
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 S. Farr
"Of wonderful use to everyone": Disability and the Marriage Plot in the Nineteenth-Century 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 Fiction
Stephanie Yorke
Disability and Contemporary Literature: Antinormative Narratives of Embodiment
David T. Mitchell
Part III: Poetry
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
Part IV: Drama
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
Part V: Life Writing
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
