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Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World

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Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World Synopsis

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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ISBN: 9783030254605
Publication date: 17th December 2020
Author: Richard H Godden, Asa Simon Mittman
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer International Publishing
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 352 pages
Series: The New Middle Ages
Genres: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
European history: medieval period, middle ages
Literary studies: general