This title brings cultural disability studies and genre fiction studies into dialogue for the first time. Analysing representations of disability in contemporar

Literature and Disability introduces readers to the field of disability studies and the ways in which a focus on issues of impairment and the representation of

Working across time periods and critical contexts, this volume provides the most comprehensive overview of literary representations of disability.

Literary and filmic depictions of the disabled reinforce an "ableist" ideology that classifies bodies as normal or abnormal--positive or negative. Disabled char

As there has yet to be any substantial scrutiny of the complex confluences a more sustained dialogue between disability studies and comics studies might suggest