Care and Disability - Relational Representations

Care and Disability is an edited collection offering critical perspectives on representations of care and disability, by emerging and established scholars across multiple periods, regions, and genres of literary studies.

List of contents

0.Introduction. Section One - Care Collectives: Choosing Kin. 1.Caring Characters: Esther's Effacement in Bleak House. 2.Socrates's Bath: Toward a Poetics of Attendance. 3.Ancestral Care Work: Reimagining Disability Justice for Black Crip Queers. Section Two - Critiquing Family Caregiving. 4."The Very Staff of My Age, My Very Prop": Care as Prosthesis in Shakespeare. 5.The Networked Family: Care and Form in Avni Doshi's Burnt Sugar. 6."Negotiating Care and Control: Impairment, Caregiving, and Surveillance in William Godwin's Mandeville". Section Three - Articulating Care. 7."[G]ood people will take care of me": Capacity and Care in the 'Left-Hand Penmanship' Contest of 1865-1867. 8.'Mary's Washing-Tub Tales': Disability and Communities of Care in Mary Prince's History. 9."Anile Dotage?" Communities of Care in William Wordsworth's "The Idiot Boy". Section Four - Nineteenth-Century, North American, Indigenous Voices of Disability: An Alternative Care Ethic". 11."Disability and Collective Care in Charlotte Forten's Civil War Writings". 12.Ethics of Care, Disability, and Sex Work as Care Work in Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone and Days". 13.From Double Bind to Monkeys' Wedding: Care Work in Octavia E. Butler's Dawn.

About the author

D. Christopher Gabbard is a professor of English at the University of North Florida, whose work focuses on the intersection of disability studies and British eighteenth-century studies.
Talia Schaffer is a Distinguished Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY, and the Graduate Center, CUNY, whose work focuses on gender, disability, and domesticity in the Victorian novel.

Summary

Care and Disability is an edited collection offering critical perspectives on representations of care and disability, by emerging and established scholars across multiple periods, regions, and genres of literary studies.

Product details

• Authors: D. Christopher Schaffer Gabbard
• Assisted by: D. Christopher Gabbard (Editor), Talia Schaffer (Editor), Schaffer Talia (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.02.2025
• EAN: 9781032687247
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3268724-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Public Health, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, Personal & public health, Literature: history & criticism, Disability: social aspects, Literature: history and criticism, Personal and public health / health education, disability;disability and care;disability and literature