Disability in Science Fiction: Representations of Technology as CureIn this groundbreaking collection, twelve international scholars – with backgrounds in disability studies, English and world literature, classics, and history – discuss the representation of dis/ability, medical "cures," technology, and the body in science fiction. |
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Contents
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CHAPTER 1 Tools to Help You Think Intersections between Disability Studiesand the Writings of Samuel R Delany | 19 |
CHAPTER 2 Freaks and Extraordinary Bodies Disability as Generic Marker in John VarleysTango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo | 34 |
CHAPTER 3 The Many Voices of Charlie Gordon On the Representation of Intellectual Disabilityin Daniel Keyess Flowers for Algernon | 47 |
CHAPTER 4 The Metamorphic Body in Science Fiction From Prosthetic Correction toUtopian Enhancement | 61 |
CHAPTER 5 Prosthetic Bodies The Convergence of Disability Technology and Capital in Peter Wattss Blindsightand Ian McDonalds River of Gods | 74 |
CHAPTER 6 The Bionic Woman Machine or Human? | 89 |
CHAPTER 7 Star Wars Limb Loss and What It Means to Be Human | 102 |
CHAPTER 9 Great Clumsy DinosaursThe Disabled Body in the Posthuman World | 131 |
CHAPTER 10 Disabled Hero Sick SocietySophocless Philoctetes and Robert
Silverbergs The Man in the Maze | 143 |
CHAPTER 11Everything Is Always ChangingAutism Normalcy and Progress in Elizabeth Moons The Speed of Darkand Nancy Fuldas Movement | 152 |
CHAPTER 12 Life without Hope?Huntingtons Disease and Genetic Futurity | 169 |
Contributors | 189 |
Works Cited | 192 |
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CHAPTER 8 Animal and Alien Bodiesas Prostheses Reframing Disability in Avatar and How to Train Your Dragon | 115 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Disability in Science Fiction: Representations of Technology as Cure |
| Editor | K. Allan |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Springer, 2013 |
| ISBN | 1137343435, 9781137343437 |
| Length | 217 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / General Literary Criticism / General |
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