The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability (Routledge Companions)

__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. Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Table of contents Figures Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction to The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability Making spaces Critical intersections and entanglements: the structure of the book Works cited Part I New directions in the field 1 Disability in Indigenous literature Sovereignty and nation Land Colonialism Blood Tradition and Indigenous epistemologies Note Works cited 2 Disability in black speculative fiction Black speculative fiction: an overview Approaches to analyzing disability in black speculative fiction Conclusion Notes Works cited 3 t4t: Toward a crip ethics of trans literary criticism Reading disability/transgender Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones t4t Works cited 4 Challenging phonocentrism: Writing signs and bilingual Deaf literatures “The hearing line” in literature Phonocentric norms and the disconstruction of sign language Breaking English: reclaiming and remaking literature Vexing the print page Theory and praxis of writing ASL in English literature Note Works cited 5 “Here there be monsters”: Mapping novel representations of the relationship between disability and monstrosity in recent grap Note Works cited 6 Spectrality, strangeness, and stigmaphilia: Gothic and critical disability studies The perils of a Gothic mode in disability representation Stigmaphilia in a minor key: uses of the Gothic Vampires, live burial, and flesh-made cloth Note Works cited 7 Contemporary horror and disability: Adaptations and active readers Cthulhu and Crip Time: Dreamland Theater: “The Language of Time” (2017) New entrances into the asylum: Victor LaValle’s The Devil in Silver (2012) Horror hackery: Cherie Priest’s Maplecroft (2014) Erasure pleasures: Matthea Harvey and Amy Jean Porter’s Of Lamb (2011) Conclusion Note Works cited Part II Novels and short stories 8 From “changelings” to “libtards”: Intellectual disability in the eighteenth century and beyond Status idiocy and functional idiocy The intelligence society Daniel Defoe’s Mere Nature Delineated and Frances Burney’s Camilla Functional idiocy: gender and race Lemuel Gulliver, cognitive ableist par excellence Notes Works cited 9 Crip gothic: Affiliations of disability and queerness in Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764) The system of primogeniture and Conrad’s chronic illness Degeneracy in the eighteenth century Libertinism and disability Conclusion Notes Works cited 10 “Of wonderful use to everyone”: Disability and the marriage plot in the nineteenth-century novel The queer go-between The healing storyteller The angel with a legacy Conclusion Notes Works cited 11 Afro-modernism and black disability studies Introduction Medical segregation Caregiving and exploitation in Langston Hughes’s “Berry” Black ill transience in Hughes’s “Home” Psychiatric reform Conclusion Notes Works cited 12 “What’s the matter with him?”: Intellectual disability, Jewishness, and stereotype in Bernard Malamud’s “Idiots First” A word on “intellectual disability” The story Degrees of otherness The representation of intellectual disability: a “failed mimesis”? Jewishness and the myth of “superior intelligence” Community and solidarity Note Works cited 13 Metaphorical medicine: Disability in Anglophone Indian fiction Disability and the excisions of the nation: Salman Rushdie and Rohinton Mistry Dissolution and persistence: Rohinton Mistry, Anita Desai, and Jhumpa Lahiri Disability and counter-humiliation in Indra Sinha and Firdaus Kanga Conclusion Notes Works cited 14 Disability and contemporary literature: Antinormative narratives of embodiment I would tell all the stories I knew in which people went wrong but the nervous system was right all along. Rich 293 Introductio Variations on variation Bodies falling away from true Like okapi in the jungle The capacities of incapacity Works cited Part III Poetry 15 Poet and beggar: Edmund White’s Blindness Depicting visual disability The blind beggar The blind poet Works cited 16 Deafness and modernism Notes Works cited 17 The “fury of loving joyfully”: Amelia Rosselli’s War Variations Amelia Rosselli (1930–1996) Variazioni belliche13 Writing and history Notes Works cited 18 Getting there: Pain poetics and Canadian literature A Levinasian intersubjectivity (in brief) Impediments to a disability poetics: narrative preferences, body as formal metaphor Towards a poetics of pain: cultural trauma, location, agency Note Works cited 19 Disability in contemporary poetry Introduction The Body Mutinies: the poetry of Lucia Perillo Vanishing Points: the poetry of Michele Leggott The Perseverance: the poetry of Raymond Antrobus Conclusion Notes Works cited 20 Disability poetry: Testing the waters of definition Works cited Part IV Drama 21 Canadian disability dramaturgies Works cited 22 Disability and the American stage musical The triple-threat performer Disability as a metaphor Crip characters with diegetic disabilities Changing casting culture and representation Conclusion Note Works cited 23 Of scapeghosts and men: Shane Meadows’ Dead Man’s Shoes and the politics of learning disability Definitive variance Get in the back of the van Getting wasted Taking the blame Being a man Heroes and monsters Ruined ghosts Notes Works cited 24 Disability, drama, and the problem of intersectional invisibility Sweat Hir Conclusion Works cited 25 Puppets, players and the poetics of vulnerability: Hijinx’s Meet Fred and new directions in the theatres of learning disabi Vulnerability as interruptive value Vulnerability as complicity Vulnerability as structural support Works cited Part V Life writing 26 Sex, death, and the welfare check: Rhythms of disability and sexuality in David Wojnarowicz’s Close to the Knives Notes Works cited 27 Disability narrative, embodied aesthetics and cross-media arts Introduction Textile art, textual barriers and dyslexia “The thought thug that goes on in one’s mind”: bodily languages of multiple sclerosis Cross-media aesthetics and the experience of schizophrenia Notes Works cited 28 A grammar of touch: Interdependencies of person, place, thing Person: intimacy and strained metaphor Place: where writing starts Thing: grammars of materiality Writing sex, gender and disability: remarkable grammars Works cited 29 Psychographics: Graphic memoirs and psychiatric disability Introduction: disability studies meets graphic medicine “A vast chain of suffering”: Binky Brown and the disability origins of the graphic memoir The madwoman in the comic: Binky Brown and “Prisoner on the Hell Planet” Green’s medico-psychiatric reframing of Binky Brown Conclusion: re/visions of diagnoses Notes Works cited 30 Challenging the neurotypical: Autism, contemporary literature, and digital textualities History and contexts Case study 1: Women from Another Planet? Case study 2: Wrong Planet Notes Works cited Index "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"-- Provided by publisher