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Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: The New Middle Ages
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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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