Engineering the other. "You were less than human": the commodification of the disabled non-human in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go / Agnibha Banerjee -- A eugenics of disability : transformation, futurity, and the disabled monster body in Resident evil / Elliot Mason -- (Un)diagnosing religious experience : divine encounters in Battlestar Galactica / Lucas Cober -- Androids, replicants, and strange things : disability as representative of compromised autonomy in popular science fiction / Sean Mock -- Queering the dynamics of care. The animation of stone : an affective queer crip reading of N.K. Jemisin's Broken earth series / Jeana Moody -- Towards an intergalactic disability justice : rebelling against ableism through a criptique of the Jedi Order / Samuel Shelton -- Fish, roses, and sexy sutures : disability, embodied estrangement and radical care in Larissa Lai's The tiger flu / Stevi Costa, Edmond Chang -- Disability within/of a globalized future. Neoliberal convergences of capital & capacity : reading science fiction with the Ada / T. Wesley -- Star Trek, disability, and La Forge : seeing past the visor / Craig A. Meyer, Daniel Preston.
Summary:
"This edited volume examines representations of disability within popular science fiction, using examples from television, film, literature, and gaming to explore how the genre of science fiction shapes cultural understanding of disability experience. Science fiction texts typically grapple with concepts such as transhumanism, embodiment, and autonomy more directly than do those of other genres. In doing so, they raise significant questions about the experience of disability. More broadly, they often convey the place of disability in not only the future but also the world of today. Through critical research, the chapters within this interdisciplinary collection explore what science fiction texts convey about the value of disability, whether it be through disabled characters, biotechnologies, or, more broadly, conceptions of an idealized future. Chapters are grouped thematically and include discussions of the intersections of disability with other identity groups, the interplay of disability and market/capitalist value, and how disability shapes current and future definitions of human-ness, agency, and autonomy. This full volume builds on current research regarding the relationship of disability studies to the science fiction genre by exploring new themes and contemporary media to aid as an instructional tool for scholars in fields of disability studies, science fiction literature, and media studies." -- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.