Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World

Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World

by Richard H. Godden and Asa Simon Mittman
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 13/12/2019

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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.

ISBN:
9783030254582
9783030254582
Category:
Literary studies: classical
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
13-12-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing

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