Overview
- Explores the representation of disability in youth and children's dystopian literature
- Analyses the way that a child's understanding of disability is shaped by the literature and film content
- Discusses how dystopian narratives shape the presentation of disability in children's literature
Part of the book series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature (CRACL)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book takes up the task of mapping discursive shifts in the representation of disability in dystopian youth texts across four historical periods where major social, cultural and political shifts were occurring in the lives of many disabled people. By focusing on dystopian texts, which the author argues act as sites for challenging or reinforcing dominant belief systems and ways of being, this study explores the potential of literature, film and television to act as a catalyst of change in the representation of disability. In addition, this work discusses the texts and technologies that continue to perpetuate questionable and often competing discourses on the subject.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dylan Holdsworth is a casual academic at Deakin University. He was awarded his PhD in 2017, and his research interests include disability, gender, genre, children’s and young adult literature, and Australian literature. He has published chapters in Disability and Masculinities: Corporeality, Pedagogy and the Critique of Otherness (2017), Affect, Emotion, and Children’s Literature: Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults (2017), and Migratory Men: Place, Transnationalism and Masculinities (2023), as well as an article on crip-trans ghosts in paranormal horror cinema in Writing from Below (2023) with Tom Sandercock.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Government of Disability in Dystopian Children’s Texts
Authors: Dylan Holdsworth
Series Title: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52034-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-52033-4Published: 12 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-52036-5Due: 12 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-52034-1Published: 11 March 2024
Series ISSN: 2753-0825
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0833
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 194
Topics: Children's Literature, Literature, general, Education, general