Disability in science fiction :repre...
Allan, Kathryn, (1979-)

 

  • Disability in science fiction :representations of technology as cure /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 809.3/8762
    書名/作者: Disability in science fiction : : representations of technology as cure // edited by Kathryn Allan.
    其他作者: Allan, Kathryn,
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (vi, 217 pages)
    標題: Science fiction - History and criticism.
    標題: People with disabilities in literature.
    標題: Technology in literature.
    標題: Human body in literature.
    標題: Mind and body in literature.
    標題: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
    ISBN: 9781137343437 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 1137343435 (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]- 211) and index.
    內容註: Introduction: Reading Disability in Science Fiction; Kathryn Allan -- PART I: THEORIZING DISABILITY IN SCIENCE FICTION -- 1. Tools to Help You Think: Intersections between Disability Studies and the Writings of Samuel R. Delany; Joanne Woiak and Hioni Karamanos -- 2. The Metamorphic Body in Science Fiction: From Prosthetic Correction to Utopian Enhancement; An�tnio Fernando Cascais -- 3. Freaks and Extraordinary Bodies: Disability as Generic Marker in John Varley's "Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo;" Ria Cheyne -- 4. The Many Voices of Charlie Gordon: On the Representation of Intellectual Disability in Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon; Howard Sklar -- PART II: HUMAN BOUNDARIES AND PROSTHETIC BODIES -- 5. Prosthetic Bodies: The Convergence of Disability, Technology and Capital in Peter Watts' Blindsight and Ian McDonald's River of Gods; Netty Matar -- 6. The Bionic Woman: Machine or Human?; Donna Binns -- 7. Star Wars, Limb-loss, and What it Means to be Human; Ralph Covino -- 8. Animal and Alien Bodies as Prostheses: Reframing Disability in Avatar and How to Train Your Dragon; Leigha McReynolds -- PART III: CURE NARRATIVES FOR THE (POST)HUMAN FUTURE -- 9. "Great Clumsy Dinosaurs": The Disabled Body in the Posthuman World; Brent Walter Cline -- 10. Disabled Hero, Sick Society: Sophocles' Philoctetes and Robert Silverberg's The Man in the Maze; Robert W. Cape, Jr. -- 11. "Everything is always changing": Autism, Normalcy, and Progress in Elizabeth Moon's The Speed of Dark and Nancy Fulda's "Movement;" Christy Tidwell -- 12. Life without Hope? Huntington's Disease and Genetic Futurity; Gerry Canavan.
    摘要、提要註: 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.
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137343437
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