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Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World
- Editor(s):
- Richard H. Godden, Asa Simon Mittman (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- Monsters and Monstrosity
- Subject(s):
- Disability studies, Disabilities
- Item Type:
- Book
- Tag(s):
- monsters, posthuman, Medieval studies, Early modern studies, Disability
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/bgca-mt10
- Abstract:
- This collection examines the intersection of the discourses of “disability” and “monstrosity” in a timely and necessary intervention in the scholarly fields of Disability Studies and Monster Studies. Analyzing Medieval and Early Modern art and literature replete with images of non-normative bodies, these essays consider the pernicious history of defining people with distinctly non-normative bodies or non-normative cognition as monsters. In many cases throughout Western history, a figure marked by what Rosemarie Garland-Thomson has termed “the extraordinary body” is labeled a “monster.” This volume explores the origins of this conflation, examines the problems and possibilities inherent in it, and casts both disability and monstrosity in light of emergent, empowering discourses of posthumanism.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book Show details
- Publisher:
- Palgrave
- Pub. Date:
- 2019
- ISBN:
- 978-3-030-25457-5
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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