The Government of Disability in Dystopian Children's Texts

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-52036-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 306 g

Reihe: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature

This book takes up the task of mapping discursive shifts in the representation of disability in dystopian youth texts across four historical periods where major social, cultural and political shifts were occurring in the lives of many disabled people. By focusing on dystopian texts, which the author argues act as sites for challenging or reinforcing dominant belief systems and ways of being, this study explores the potential of literature, film and television to act as a catalyst of change in the representation of disability. In addition, this work discusses the texts and technologies that continue to perpetuate questionable and often competing discourses on the subject.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holdsworth, Dylan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Worlds of Difference.- Chapter 1 -Goblin-ology: Eugenics and hysterisation in George MacDonald's (1872).- Chapter 2 -"Lonely, tender, passionate heart": Melancholy and Isolation in Dinah Mulock Craik's (1875).- Chapter 3 -Building Beasties: Disability, Imperialism and Violence in William Golding's (1954).- Chapter 4 -On the Fringes: John Wyndham's (1955) and Technologies of the Self.- Chapter 5 -"A Perversion of Nature? How Exciting!": Tim Burton's  (1990), the Freak, the Monster and the Limits of Inclusion.- Chapter 6 -"Blind. Deaf. Disabled. Wheelchair": Community, History and Resistance in Jane Stemp's (1995).- Chapter 7 -"This Magic Keeps Me Alive, but it's Making Me Crazy!": Amputation, Madness and Control in  (2009-2018).- Chapter 8 -"Loss is Loss is Loss": Embodying the Family-as-Trauma in Julianna Baggott's (2012).

Über Autor(innen)

Dylan Holdsworth is a casual academic at Deakin University. He was awarded his PhD in 2017, and his research interests include disability, gender, genre, children’s and young adult literature, and Australian literature. He has published chapters in Disability and Masculinities: Corporeality, Pedagogy and the Critique of Otherness (2017), Affect, Emotion, and Children’s Literature: Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults (2017), and Migratory Men: Place, Transnationalism and Masculinities (2023), as well as an article on crip-trans ghosts in paranormal horror cinema in Writing from Below (2023) with Tom Sandercock.