The Government of Disability in Dystopian Children’s Texts
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| Samenvatting: | XXXVIII, 194 p. text |
| Taal: | Engels |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2024.
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| Editie: | 1st ed. 2024. |
| Reeks: | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature,
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| Online toegang: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52034-1 |
| Formaat: | Elektronisch Boek |
Inhoudsopgave:
- Introduction: Worlds of Difference
- Chapter 1 -Goblin-ology: Eugenics and hysterisation in George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin (1872)
- Chapter 2 -"Lonely, tender, passionate heart": Melancholy and Isolation in Dinah Mulock Craik's The Little Lame Prince and his Traveling Cloak (1875)
- Chapter 3 -Building Beasties: Disability, Imperialism and Violence in William Golding's Lord of the Flies (1954)
- Chapter 4 -On the Fringes: John Wyndham's The Chrysalids (1955) and Technologies of the Self
- Chapter 5 -"A Perversion of Nature? How Exciting!": Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990), the Freak, the Monster and the Limits of Inclusion
- Chapter 6 -"Blind. Deaf. Disabled. Wheelchair": Community, History and Resistance in Jane Stemp's Waterbound (1995)
- Chapter 7 -"This Magic Keeps Me Alive, but it's Making Me Crazy!": Amputation, Madness and Control in Adventure Time (2009-2018)
- Chapter 8 -"Loss is Loss is Loss": Embodying the Family-as-Trauma in Julianna Baggott's Pure (2012).