Disability in Science Fiction Representations of Technology as Cure [Hardcover]

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.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; Ant?nio 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

Disability in Science Fiction, an edited collection of twelve essays, focuses on the use of technology as cure for disability in science fictl³Ò