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Disability in Science Fiction

2015-12-17 Fiction
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Release : 2015-12-17
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Disability in Science Fiction by : K. Allan

Download or read book Disability in Science Fiction written by K. Allan. This book was released on 2015-12-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Accessing the Future

2015 Fiction
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Release : 2015
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 542/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Accessing the Future by : Djibril al-Ayad

Download or read book Accessing the Future written by Djibril al-Ayad. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface / JoSelle Vanderhooft -- Introduction / Kathryn Allan & Djibril al-Ayad -- Pirate songs / Nicolette Barischoff -- Pay attention / Sarah Pinsker -- Invisible people / Margaret Killjoy -- The lessons of the moon / Joyce Chng -- Screens / Samantha Rich -- A sense all its own / Sara Patterson -- -- Pay attention-- Better to have loved / Kate O'Connor -- Morphic resonance / Toby MacNutt -- Losing touch / Louise Hughes -- Into the waters I rode down / Jack Hollis Marr -- Playa song / Petra Kuppers -- Puppetry / A.C. Buchanan -- Lyric / A.F. Sanchez -- Courting the silent sun / Rachael K. Jones -- In open air / David Jon Fuller.

Disability, Literature, Genre

2019-11-30 Disabilities in literature
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Release : 2019-11-30
Genre : Disabilities in literature
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Book Synopsis Disability, Literature, Genre by : Ria Cheyne

Download or read book Disability, Literature, Genre written by Ria Cheyne. This book was released on 2019-11-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the intersection of disability and genre in popular works of horror, crime, science fiction, fantasy, and romance published since the late 1960s, Disability, Literature, Genre is a major contribution to both cultural disability studies and genre fiction studies. Drawing on recent work on affect and emotion, the book explores how disability makes us feel, and how those feelings shape interpersonal and fictional encounters. Written in a clear and accessible style, Disability, Literature, Genre offers a timely reflection on the rapidly growing body of scholarship on disability representation, as well as an innovative new theorisation of genre. By reconceptualising genre reading as an affective process, Ria Cheyne establishes genre fiction as a key site of investigation for disability studies. She argues that genre fiction's unique combination of affectivity and reflexivity makes it ideally suited to the production of reflexive representations of disability: representations which encourage the reader to reflect upon what they understand about disability, and potentially to rethink it. Examining the affective--and effective--power of disability representations in a wide range of popular genre fiction, this book will be essential reading for academics in disability studies, literary studies, popular culture studies, and the medical humanities.

The Ship Who Sang

2017-01-18 Fiction
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Release : 2017-01-18
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 114/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Ship Who Sang by : Anne McCaffrey

Download or read book The Ship Who Sang written by Anne McCaffrey. This book was released on 2017-01-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helva had been born human, but only her brain had been saved—saved to be schooled, programmed, and implanted into the sleek titanium body of an intergalactic scout ship. But first she had to choose a human partner—male or female—to share her exhilirating excapades in space! Her life was to be rich and rewarding . . . resplendent with daring adventures and endless excitement, beyond the wildest dreams of mere mortals. Gifted with the voice of an angel and being virtually indestructable, Helva XH-834 antipitated a sublime immortality. Then one day she fell in love!

Bodyminds Reimagined

2018-03-15 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2018-03-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Bodyminds Reimagined by : Sami Schalk

Download or read book Bodyminds Reimagined written by Sami Schalk. This book was released on 2018-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre's political potential lies in the authors' creation of bodyminds that transcend reality's limitations. She reads (dis)ability in neo-slave narratives by Octavia Butler (Kindred) and Phyllis Alesia Perry (Stigmata) not only as representing the literal injuries suffered under slavery, but also as a metaphor for the legacy of racial violence. The fantasy worlds in works by N. K. Jemisin, Shawntelle Madison, and Nalo Hopkinson—where werewolves have obsessive-compulsive-disorder and blind demons can see magic—destabilize social categories and definitions of the human, calling into question the very nature of identity. In these texts, as well as in Butler’s Parable series, able-mindedness and able-bodiedness are socially constructed and upheld through racial and gendered norms. Outlining (dis)ability's centrality to speculative fiction, Schalk shows how these works open new social possibilities while changing conceptualizations of identity and oppression through nonrealist contexts.

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