Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction to The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability
Alice Hall
Part I: New Directions in the Field
- Disability in Indigenous Literature
- Disability in Black Speculative Fiction
- t4t: Towards a Crip Ethics of Trans Literary Criticism
- Challenging Photocentrism: Writing Signs and Bilingual Deaf Literatures
- "Here There Be Monsters": Mapping Novel Representations of the Relationship between Disability and Monstrosity in Recent Graphic Narratives and Comic Books
- Spectrality, Strangeness, and Stigmaphilia: Gothic and Critical Disability Studies
- Contemporary Horror and Disability: Adaptations and Active Readers
- From "Changelings" to "Libtards": Intellectual Disability in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond
- Crip Gothic: Affiliations of Disability and Queerness in Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764)
- "Of wonderful use to everyone": Disability and the Marriage Plot in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
- Afro-modernism and Black Disability Studies
- "What’s the Matter with Him?": Intellectual Disability, Jewishness, and Stereotype in Bernard Malamud’s "Idiots First"
- Metaphorical Medicine: Disability in Anglophone Indian Fiction
- Disability and Contemporary Literature: Antinormative Narratives of Embodiment
- Poet and Beggar: Edmund White’s Blindness
- Deafness and Modernism
- The "Fury of Loving Joyfully": Amelia Rosselli’s War Variations
- Getting There: Pain Poetics and Canadian Literature
- Disability in Contemporary Poetry
- Disability Poetry: Testing the Waters of Definition
- Canadian Disability Dramaturgies
- Disability and the American Stage Musical
- Of Scapegoats and Men: Shane Meadow’s Dead Man’s Shoes and the Politics of Learning Disability
- Disability, Drama, and the Problem of Intersectional Invisibility
- Puppets, Players and the Poetics of Vulnerability: Hijinx’s Meet Fred and New Directions in the Theatres of Learning Disability
- Sex, Death, and the Welfare Check: Rhythms of Disability and Sexuality in David Wojnarowicz’s Close to the Knives
- Disability Narrative, Embodied Aesthetics and Cross-Media Arts
- A Grammar of Touch: Interdependencies of Person, Place, Thing
- Psychographics: Graphic Memoirs and Psychiatric Disability
- Challenging the Neurotypical: Autism, Contemporary Literature, and Digital Textualities
Siobhan Senier
Sami Schalk
Cameron Awkward-Rich
Kristen Harmon
Chris Foss
Sara Wasson
Petra Kuppers
Part II: Novels and Short Stories
D. Christopher Gabbard
Jason S. Farr
Clare Walker Gore
Jess Waggoner
Howard Sklar
Stephanie Yorke
David T. Mitchell
Part III: Poetry
Vanessa Warne
Rebecca Sanchez
Elizabeth Leake
Shane Neilson
Johanna Emeney
Michael Northen
Part IV: Drama
Kirsty Johnston
Samuel Yates
Anna Harpin
Ann M. Fox
Matt Hargrave
Part V: Life Writing
Leon J. Hilton
Stella Bolaki
Shannon Walters
Elizabeth J. Donaldson
Hannah Tweed



