04349nam 22006255 450 991079067910332120230603055108.01-349-46568-21-137-34343-510.1057/9781137343437(CKB)2550000001125724(EBL)1431313(SSID)ssj0000980572(PQKBManifestationID)12431684(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000980572(PQKBWorkID)10958226(PQKB)10259256(SSID)ssj0001657912(PQKBManifestationID)16440311(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001657912(PQKBWorkID)14985703(PQKB)10771768(DE-He213)978-1-137-34343-7(OCoLC)868957292(MiAaPQ)EBC1431313(EXLCZ)99255000000112572420151213d2013 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDisability in Science Fiction[electronic resource] Representations of Technology as Cure /edited by K. Allan1st ed. 2013.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2013.1 online resource (226 p.)Includes index.1-137-34342-7 1-299-95114-7 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; Ant̤nio 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.In science fiction, technology often modifies, supports, and attempts to 'make normal' the disabled body. 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. Bringing together the fields of disability studies and science fiction, this book explores the ways dis/abled bodies use prosthetics to challenge common ideas about ability and human being, as well as proposes new understandings of what 'technology as cure' means for people with disabilities in a (post)human future.FictionTechnology in literatureFictionhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/825000Literature and Technology/Mediahttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/827000Fiction.Technology in literature.Fiction.Literature and Technology/Media.809.38762Allan Kedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtBOOK9910790679103321Disability in Science Fiction3685966UNINA