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Disability in science fiction : representations of technology as cure / edited by Kathryn Allan.

Title
  1. Disability in science fiction : representations of technology as cure / edited by Kathryn Allan.
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  1. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Additional authors
  1. Allan, Kathryn, 1979-
Description
  1. vi, 217 pages; 21 cm
Summary
  1. In science fiction, technology often modifies, supports, and attempts to 'make normal' the disabled body. In 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. Bringing together the fields of disability studies and science fiction, this book explores the ways dis/abled bodies use prosthetics to challenge common ideas about ability and human being, as well as proposes new understandings of what 'technology as cure' means for people with disabilities in a (post)human future. -- Provided by publisher.
Subject
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc
  2. Technology in literature
  3. People with disabilities in literature
  4. Mind and body in literature
  5. Human body in literature
  6. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary
  7. Medicine in Literature
  8. Disabled Persons
  9. Human Body
  10. Science fiction > History and criticism
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. Introduction: Reading Disability in Science Fiction / Kathryn Allan -- Theorizing disability in science fiction. Tools to Help You Think: Intersections between Disability Studies and the Writings of Samuel R. Delany / Joanne Woiak and Hioni Karamanos ; The Metamorphic Body in Science Fiction: From Prosthetic Correction to Utopian Enhancement / António Fernando Cascais ; Freaks and Extraordinary Bodies: Disability as Generic Marker in John Varley's "Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo" / Ria Cheyne ; The Many Voices of Charlie Gordon: On the Representation of Intellectual Disability in Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon / Howard Sklar -- Human boundaries and prosthetic bodies. Prosthetic Bodies: The Convergence of Disability, Technology and Capital in Peter Watts' Blindsight and Ian McDonald's River of Gods / Netty Matar ; The Bionic Woman: Machine or Human? / Donna Binns ; Star Wars, Limb-loss, and What it Means to be Human / Ralph Covino ; Animal and Alien Bodies as Prostheses: Reframing Disability in Avatar and How to Train Your Dragon / Leigha McReynolds -- Cure narratives for the (post)human future. "Great Clumsy Dinosaurs": The Disabled Body in the Posthuman World / Brent Walter Cline ; Disabled Hero, Sick Society: Sophocles' Philoctetes and Robert Silverberg's The Man in the Maze / Robert W. Cape, Jr. ; "Everything is always changing": Autism, Normalcy, and Progress in Elizabeth Moon's The Speed of Dark and Nancy Fulda's "Movement" / Christy Tidwell ; Life without Hope? Huntington's Disease and Genetic Futurity / Gerry Canavan.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]- 211) and index.
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  1. committed to retain