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The New Middle Ages

The New Middle Ages

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The New Middle Ages

Godden, Richard H.; Mittman, Asa Simon

This collection examines the intersection of the discourses of “disability” and “monstrosity” in a timely and necessary intervention in the scholarly fields of Disability Studies and Monster Studies. Analyzing Medieval and Early Modern art and literature replete with images of non-normative bodies, these essays consider the pernicious history of defining people with distinctly non-normative bodies or non-normative cognition as monsters. In many cases throughout Western history, a figure marked by what Rosemarie Garland-Thomson has termed “the extraordinary body” is labeled a “monster.” This volume explores the origins of this conflation, examines the problems and possibilities inherent in it, and casts both disability and monstrosity in light of emergent, empowering discourses of posthumanism.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2019-12-02

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783030254575

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-25458-2

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 352

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