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Disability in Science Fiction [[electronic resource] ] : Representations of Technology as Cure / / edited by K. Allan
| Disability in Science Fiction [[electronic resource] ] : Representations of Technology as Cure / / edited by K. Allan |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.38762 |
| Soggetto topico |
Fiction
Technology in literature Literature and Technology/Media |
| ISBN |
1-349-46568-2
1-137-34343-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790679103321 |
| New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Disability in Science Fiction : Representations of Technology as Cure / / edited by K. Allan
| Disability in Science Fiction : Representations of Technology as Cure / / edited by K. Allan |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.38762 |
| Soggetto topico |
Fiction
Literature and technology Mass media and literature Fiction Literature Literature and Technology |
| ISBN |
9781349465682
1349465682 9781137343437 1137343435 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911105976103321 |
| New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Disability in Science Fiction : Representations of Technology as Cure / / edited by K. Allan
| Disability in Science Fiction : Representations of Technology as Cure / / edited by K. Allan |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.38762 |
| Soggetto topico |
Fiction
Literature and technology Mass media and literature Fiction Literature Literature and Technology |
| ISBN |
9781349465682
1349465682 9781137343437 1137343435 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911133524203321 |
| New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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