AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Affective Encounters and Reflexive RepresentationsChapter 1: Horror: Fearful BodymindsChapter 2: Character and Closure: Disability in CrimeChapter 3: Wondrous Texts: Science FictionChapter 4: Fantasy: Affirmation and EnchantmentChapter 5: Desirable Futures: RomanceConclusion: Reading and FeelingWorks CitedDisability in Genre Fiction: An Annotated BibliographyIndex
Ria Cheyne is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Disability and Education at Liverpool Hope University.
'A nuanced, interdisciplinary academic text that will be of
interest to many readers who engage in discussions about emotional
life, while seeking out rigorous and thoughtful literary
resources... Using generous, precise while flexible readings of the
selected genre-specific texts, Cheyne’s book expertly and
insistently melds affect theory and cultural disability studies,
thus broadening each scholarly locus in impressive ways, while
breaking down proverbial silos.'
Diane R. Wiener, Wordgathering
'A significant work of scholarship that not only manages to bring
together two fields – cultural disability studies and genre
(orpopular) fiction studies – but also succeeds at doing so through
the lens of affect theory... This collection will appeal to both
seasoned scholars of these fields as well as new scholars or
curious creators who wonder just where to begin with examining
horror and disability.'Anelise Farris, Fafnir: Nordic Journal of
Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
'[Cheyne] charts a critical pathway into the nexus of disability,
genre fiction, and affect. [...] This wide-ranging inquiry includes
chapters on horror, crime, science fiction, fantasy, and romance,
and it offers close readings of novels. Cheyne provides an
annotated bibliography of more than 250 genre texts that depict
disability, an invaluable resource that will support future
scholarly work in literary studies, disability studies, the medical
humanities, and popular culture studies. In sum, Cheyne's
ground-breaking study convincingly situates genre studies and
affect studies as critical modes that make possible new
understandings of how the Western imagination conceives of and
reacts to disability.'J. D. Harding, Saint Leo University
'Ria Cheyne’s fascinating Disability, Literature, Genre redresses
some of this deficient attention to disability in the more
constrained traditions of popular genres. [...] Cheyne constructs
fascinating juxtapositions, and her arguments are worthy of
consideration—nowhere more than when she looks at romance, the best
chapter. There, the affective nature of the genre’s texts functions
clearly in our experiences of the protagonists’ interiority,
offering the best opportunity for reflexive representation of
disability in the book. [...] Ultimately, Cheyne’s [book] is a
laudable, valuable contribution to the intersection of affective
exploration with disability and genre studies.'
Jacob Horn, Extrapolation
'This essential work makes visible readerly feelings towards
disability so that these might be evaluated and reconsidered. [...]
In bringing into conversation two distinct strands of criticism,
disability studies and genretheory, Cheyne populates her scholarly
context with recognizable names from each field. [...] Cheyne's
project names a terrain while smartly acknowledging that it has
only begun to map such. Theoretical and textual ground is yet to be
drawn, and Disability, Literature, and Genre presents readers both
the direction and tools needed to do so.'
Evan Chaloupka, Disability Studies Quarterly
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