The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability

Literary disability studies emerged as a critical discipline in the 1990s. The introductory chapter to this Companion provides a light-touch overview of the development of the discipline, noting key publications and how they contributed towards shaping the discipline. The social model of disability...

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Published in:Reference reviews 2018-09, Vol.32 (7/8), p.22-22
Main Author: Kemp, Linda
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Disability studies
Literature
Nonfiction
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Summary:Literary disability studies emerged as a critical discipline in the 1990s. The introductory chapter to this Companion provides a light-touch overview of the development of the discipline, noting key publications and how they contributed towards shaping the discipline. The social model of disability “still remains the single most influential idea within disability studies” (p. 6), and this influence can be seen across different iterations within literary disability studies. The 16 essays in this Cambridge Companion build upon the revisionary research described in the introduction, providing “a wide range of critical perspectives on the ways in which literary representations of disability function” (p.9). The book is presented in two parts. The first part covers the major periods and subject areas of writing in English. The second part takes approaches suggested by key critical ideas current in literary disability studies.
ISSN:0950-4125
1758-7697
DOI:10.1108/RR-04-2018-0065