Murray, S orcid.org/0000-0003-2996-1908 (2021) Disability Embodiment, Speculative Fiction, and the Testbed of Futurity. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. ISSN 1757-6458
Abstract
The article analyses depictions of disability embodiment in a range of contemporary North American speculative fiction that depicts post-crisis worlds of social and environmental breakdown. It argues that in each novel bodies are threatened and placed under pressure, particularly in terms of capacity and function. While some resolve this through recourse to humanist narratives of restitution, others imagine futures in which both bodies and societies become reformatted. Bodies remain material, but they also become metamorphized and messy; they hold charged manifestations of personhood, but also leak these conceptions of “person;” they are recognizably human, but also patterned as posthuman. The results are depictions of disability-led embodiment that, precisely because they are formed in imagined possibilities of the future, offer productive possibilities for re-visioning the present.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Liverpool University Press. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Wellcome Trust 214963/Z/18/Z |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 Feb 2021 15:37 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:34 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Liverpool University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.3828/jlcds.2021.21 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:171037 |