Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World
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Description
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.
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LOC Call Number
PN56.5 .H35 M66 2019
ISBN
9783030254575
Publication Date
2019
Department
Department of English
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
City
Cham
Recommended Citation
Godden, Richard H., "Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World" (2019).