Historia
Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World
Richard H Godden • Asa Simon Mittman
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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.
- Format: Inbunden
- ISBN: 9783030254575
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 352
- Utgivningsdatum: 2019-12-02
- Förlag: Springer Nature Switzerland AG