The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability.

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.

This book introduces debates about definitions of disability and explores intersectional approaches to disability and gender, race, class, sexuality and ethnicity. Divided broadly into sections according to literary genre, this is an important resource for those interested in exploring the field of literature and disability studies.

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