Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World 1

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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.

Författare: Richard H Godden, Asa Simon Mittman
Format: Pocket/Paperback
ISBN: 9783030254605
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 352
Utgivningsdatum: 2020-12-17
Förlag: Springer Nature Switzerland AG