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Disability in science fiction: representations of technology as cure

2014; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 51; Issue: 09 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.51-4858

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Kathryn Allan,

Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction

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 Antonio 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