Title Disability, literature, genre : representation and affect in contemporary fiction / Ria Cheyne

Published [Liverpool] : Liverpool University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource Series Representations: health, disability, culture and society ; 9 Representations (Liverpool, England) Contents Affect and the Disability Encounter -- Disability Studies, Emotion, and Exploitation -- Genre Fiction and Reflexive Representations -- Overview -- 1. Horror. Fearful Bodyminds -- Why Disability Studies is Afraid of Horror -- Why Horror Scholars are Afraid of Disability -- Stephen King's Duma Key -- Monstrous Uncertainty : Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter Novels -- Conclusion: Disturbing Representations -- 2. Character and Closure : Disability in Crime -- Disabled Detectives -- Affect and Achievement in Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme Novels -- Investigating Critical Practices : The Detective and the Supercrip -- Unreflexive Representations : Peter Robinson's Friend of the Devil -- Disabled Villains -- Ambiguous Identities and Fantasies of Identification -- Conclusion: Disability and the Altar of Closure -- 3. Wondrous Texts. Science Fiction -- Disability and Wonder -- Science Fiction and Wonder -- Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga -- Affective Uncertainty : Peter Watts's Rifters Trilogy -- Conclusion -- 4. Fantasy. Affirmation and Enchantment -- Disability in Fantasy -- Metanarratives and the Mega-Novel : George R.R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' -- Grimdark and Disability : Joe Abercrombie's 'The First Law' -- Conclusion -- 5. Desirable Futures. Romance -- Undesirable Futures -- Romance, Cure, and the Curative Imaginary -- Affective Imaginings and Reflexive Representations : Mary Balogh's 'Simply' Quartet -- Conclusion : Feeling Disability -- Conclusion : Reading and Feeling. Genre Reading as Affective Practice -- Valuing Genre(s) -- Evaluative Approach and Methodological Imperatives Summary Examining the intersection of disability and genre in popular works of horror, crime, science fiction, fantasy, and romance published since the late 1960s, Disability, Literature, Genre is a major contribution to both cultural disability studies and genre fiction studies. Drawing on recent work on affect and emotion, the book explores how disability makes us feel, and how those feelings shape interpersonal and fictional encounters. Written in a clear and accessible style, Disability, Literature, Genre offers a timely reflection on the rapidly growing body of scholarship on disability representation, as well as an innovative new theorisation of genre. By reconceptualising genre reading as an affective process, Ria Cheyne establishes genre fiction as a key site of investigation for disability studies. She argues that genre fiction's unique combination of affectivity and reflexivity makes it ideally suited to the production of reflexive representations of disability: representations which encourage the reader to reflect upon what they understand about disability, and potentially to rethink it. Examining the affective-and effective-power of disability representations in a wide range of popular genre fiction, this book will be essential reading for academics in disability studies, literary studies, popular culture studies, and the medical humanities Analysis Literary Criticism Modern General Notes Description based on print version record Subject Disabilities in literature. People with disabilities in literature. American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism English literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism 18.06 Anglo-American literature. 18.05 English literature. 17.93 themes and motives in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Comparative Literature. English literature American literature Disabilities in literature People with disabilities in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781789624892 1789624894 1789620775 9781789620771

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