TY  - GEN
N2  - 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.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-030-25
DO  - doi
AB  - 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.
T1  - Monstrosity, disability, and the posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern world /
AU  - Godden, Richard H.,
AU  - Mittman, Asa Simon,
CN  - HV1552
ID  - 917548
KW  - People with disabilities
KW  - Monsters.
KW  - People with disabilities in literature.
KW  - Monsters in literature.
SN  - 9783030254582
SN  - 3030254585
TI  - Monstrosity, disability, and the posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern world /
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