The Matter of Disability returns disability to its proper place as an ongoing historical process of corporeal, cognitive, and sensory mutation operating in a world of dynamic, even cataclysmic, change. The book's contributors offer new theorizations of human and nonhuman embodiments and their complex evolutions in our global present, in essays that explore how disability might be imagined as participant in the "complex elaboration of difference," rather than something gone awry in an otherwise stable process. This alternative approach to materiality sheds new light on the capacities that exist within the depictions of disability that the book examines, including Spider-Man, Of Mice and Men, and Bloodchild.

About the Author

David T. Mitchell is Professor of English at George Washington University. Susan Antebi is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto. Sharon L. Snyder is Instructor of Honors and Women's, Sexuality, and Gender Studies at George Washington University.

Reviews
The attention to larger critiques, the desire to cross barriers, and the formulation of disability as 'matter in motion,' with its 'alternative agencies of becoming' all position this collection as theoretically and politically innovative, potent, and generative. The book's introduction is superb-engaging, extensive, with a sharp sense of the trajectory and significance of the collection and its lively, fascinating range of topics, texts, and films."" - Stacy Alaimo, author of Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self

""Adapting research in new materialism, affect theory, and critical race studies, this theoretically innovative collection displaces the classical humanist Subject . . . The Matter of Disability is a bellwether for wheredisability studies is going and why the matter of embodiment matters. The editors have thrown down the gauntlet to scholars in other fields to 'come on in.'"" - Michael Davidson, University of California, San Diego



Book Information
ISBN 9780472074112
Author David T. Mitchell
Format Hardback
Page Count 296
Imprint The University of Michigan Press
Publisher The University of Michigan Press