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The Matter of Disability: Materiality, Biopolitics, Crip Affect
David T. Mitchell, Susan Antebi, and Sharon L. Snyder, EditorsThe Matter of Disability returns disability to its proper place as an ongoing historical process of corporeal, cognitive, and sensory mutation operating in a world of dynamic, even cataclysmic, change. The book's contributors offer new theorizations of human and nonhuman embodiments and their complex evolutions in our global present, in essays that explore how disability might be imagined as participant in the "complex elaboration of difference," rather than something gone awry in an otherwise stable process. This alternative approach to materiality sheds new light on the capacities that exist within the depictions of disability that the book examines, including Spider-Man, Of Mice and Men, and Bloodchild.
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Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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Preface and Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Part I: The Matter of Subjectivity
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Returning the Social to the Social Model
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Disability Ecology and the Rematerialization of Literary Disability Studies
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Unique Mattering
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Part II: The Matter of Meaning
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Hannah Weiner’s Transversal Poetics
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Dis-affection
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Part III: The Matter of Mortality
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Spider-Man’s Designer Genes
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An Arm Up or a Leg Down?
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Breeding Aliens, Breeding AIDS
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Why Lennie Can Teach Us New Tricks
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Part IV: The Matter of Memory
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Informal Economies in Mexico City Transit
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Posthumanist T4 Memory
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Contributors
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Index
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Published: 2019
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-05411-4 (paper)
- 978-0-472-12509-8 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-07411-2 (hardcover)