The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability

Name: The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability
Brand: Routledge
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Alice Hall(Editor)

Routledge (Publisher)

1st Edition

Published on 6. May 2020

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Hardback

396 pages

978-1-138-04360-2 (ISBN)

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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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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

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