The Cambridge companion to literature and disability /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Barker, Clare, 1980- (Editor), Murray, Stuart, 1967- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Series:Cambridge companions to topics.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: on reading disability in literature / Clare Barker and Stuart Murray
  • Across literatures. Monsters, saints, and sinners: disability in medieval literature / Edward Wheatley
  • Early modern literature and disability studies / Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood
  • Disability and deformity: function impairment and aesthetics in the long eighteenth century / Essaka Joshua
  • Embodying affliction in nineteenth-century fiction / Martha Stoddard Holmes
  • Paralyzed modernities and biofutures: bodies and minds in modern literature / Michael Davidson
  • The ambiguities of inclusion: disability in contemporary literature / Stuart Murray
  • "Radiant affliction": disability narratives in postcolonial literature / Clare Barker
  • Across critical methods. Disability and the edges of intersectionality / Alison Kafer and Eunjung Kim
  • The world-making potential of contemporary crip/queer literary and cultural production / Robert Mcruer
  • Race and disability in U.S. literature / Michelle Jarman
  • Disability and women's writing / Sami Schalk
  • Disability in genre fiction / Ria Cheyne
  • Signifying selves: disability and life writing / G. Thomas Couser
  • Disability rhetorics / Jay Dolmage
  • Afterword / Petra Kuppers.