| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: 單行本
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| 副題名: |
representations of technology as cure |
| 合作者: |
AllanKathryn, 1979- |
| 出版地: |
New York |
| 出版者: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| 出版年: |
2013 |
| 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 - |
| 電子資源: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137343437 |
| 附註: |
Description based on print version record |
| 摘要註: |
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. |
| ISBN: |
9781137343437electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1137343435electronic bk. |
| 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{EFBFBD}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. |