Disability in science fiction : representations of technology as cure /

In science fiction, technology often modifies, supports, and attempts to 'make normal' the disabled body. In this groundbreaking collection, twelve international scholars -- with backgrounds in disability studies, English and world literature, classics, and history -- discuss the represent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Allan, Kathryn, 1979- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Temas:
Science fiction > History and criticism.
People with disabilities in literature.
Technology in literature.
Human body in literature.
Mind and body in literature.
Body and soul in literature.
People with disabilities.
Medicine in literature.
Human Body
Disabled Persons
Medicine in Literature
Technologie dans la littérature.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
Esprit et corps dans la littérature.
Personnes handicapées.
Médecine dans la littérature.
physically handicapped.
handicapped.
Literary theory.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Literature.
People with disabilities
Medicine in literature
Body and soul in literature
Human body in literature
Mind and body in literature
People with disabilities in literature
Science fiction
Technology in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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; Ant̤nio 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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