Disability, literature, genre : representation and affect in contemporary fiction /

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Examining the intersection of disability and genre in popular works of horror, crime, science fiction, fantasy, and romance published since the late 1960s, Disability, Literature, Genre is a major contribution to both cultural disability studies and genre fiction studies. Drawing on recent work on a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cheyne, Ria (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Liverpool] : Liverpool University Press, 2019.
Colección:Representations (Liverpool, England)
Temas:
1900-2099
Disabilities in literature.
People with disabilities in literature.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Handicap dans la littérature.
18.06 Anglo-American literature.
18.05 English literature.
17.93 themes and motives in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Comparative Literature.
English literature
American literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Affect and the Disability Encounter
  • Disability Studies, Emotion, and Exploitation
  • Genre Fiction and Reflexive Representations
  • Overview
  • 1. Horror. Fearful Bodyminds
  • Why Disability Studies is Afraid of Horror
  • Why Horror Scholars are Afraid of Disability
  • Stephen King's Duma Key
  • Monstrous Uncertainty : Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter Novels
  • Conclusion: Disturbing Representations
  • 2. Character and Closure : Disability in Crime
  • Disabled Detectives
  • Affect and Achievement in Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme Novels
  • Investigating Critical Practices : The Detective and the Supercrip
  • Unreflexive Representations : Peter Robinson's Friend of the Devil
  • Disabled Villains
  • Ambiguous Identities and Fantasies of Identification
  • Conclusion: Disability and the Altar of Closure
  • 3. Wondrous Texts. Science Fiction
  • Disability and Wonder
  • Science Fiction and Wonder
  • Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga
  • Affective Uncertainty : Peter Watts's Rifters Trilogy
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Fantasy. Affirmation and Enchantment
  • Disability in Fantasy
  • Metanarratives and the Mega-Novel : George R.R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire'
  • Grimdark and Disability : Joe Abercrombie's 'The First Law'
  • Conclusion
  • 5. Desirable Futures. Romance
  • Undesirable Futures
  • Romance, Cure, and the Curative Imaginary
  • Affective Imaginings and Reflexive Representations : Mary Balogh's 'Simply' Quartet
  • Conclusion : Feeling Disability
  • Conclusion : Reading and Feeling. Genre Reading as Affective Practice
  • Valuing Genre(s)
  • Evaluative Approach and Methodological Imperatives.

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