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03814aam a2200397 i 4500 001 5303A1208E3311E3B5D817AEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140205010036 008 130327s2013 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2013006429 020 $a 1137343427 (alk. paper) 020 $a 9781137343420 (alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)833380957 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d CUT $d UKMGB $d CDX $d BDX $d HF9 $d MUU $d IAD $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN3433.6 $b .D57 2013 082 00 $a 809.3/8762 $2 23 245 00 $a Disability in science fiction : $b representations of technology as cure / $c edited by Kathryn Allan. 264 1 $a New York : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2013. 300 $a vi, 217 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-211) and index. 505 00 $g Cure narratives for the (post)human future. $t Life without Hope? Huntington's Disease and Genetic Futurity / $r Gerry Canavan. $g Theorizing disability in science fiction. $t Tools to Help You Think: Intersections between Disability Studies and the Writings of Samuel R. Delany / $r Joanne Woiak and Hioni Karamanos ; $t The Metamorphic Body in Science Fiction: From Prosthetic Correction to Utopian Enhancement / $r AntoÌnio Fernando Cascais ; $t Freaks and Extraordinary Bodies: Disability as Generic Marker in John Varley's "Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo" / $r Ria Cheyne ; $t The Many Voices of Charlie Gordon: On the Representation of Intellectual Disability in Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon / $r Howard Sklar -- $g Human boundaries and prosthetic bodies. $t Prosthetic Bodies: The Convergence of Disability, Technology and Capital in Peter Watts' Blindsight and Ian McDonald's River of Gods / $r Netty Matar ; $t The Bionic Woman: Machine or Human? / $r Donna Binns ; $t Star Wars, Limb-loss, and What it Means to be Human / $r Ralph Covino ; $t Animal and Alien Bodies as Prostheses: Reframing Disability in Avatar and How to Train Your Dragon / $r Leigha McReynolds -- $g Cure narratives for the (post)human future. $t "Great Clumsy Dinosaurs": The Disabled Body in the Posthuman World / $r Brent Walter Cline ; $t Disabled Hero, Sick Society: Sophocles' Philoctetes and Robert Silverberg's The Man in the Maze / $r Robert W. Cape, Jr. ; $t "Everything is always changing": Autism, Normalcy, and Progress in Elizabeth Moon's The Speed of Dark and Nancy Fulda's "Movement" / $r Christy Tidwell ; $t Life without Hope? Huntington's Disease and Genetic Futurity / $r Gerry Canavan. 520 $a In science fiction, technology often modifies, supports, and attempts to 'make normal' the disabled body. In this groundbreaking collection, twelve international scholars -- with backgrounds in disability studies, English and world literature, classics, and history -- discuss the representation of dis/ability, medical 'cures,' technology, and the body in science fiction. Bringing together the fields of disability studies and science fiction, this book explores the ways dis/abled bodies use prosthetics to challenge common ideas about ability and human being, as well as proposes new understandings of what 'technology as cure' means for people with disabilities in a (post)human future. -- Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Science fiction $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a People with disabilities in literature. 650 0 $a Technology in literature. 650 0 $a Human body in literature. 650 0 $a Mind and body in literature. 700 1 $a Allan, Kathryn, $d 1979- $e editor of compilation. 941 $a 5 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724071824.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230706020212.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180119032830.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20160331011555.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20140725020822.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5303A1208E3311E3B5D817AEDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search