03724nam a22005415i 4500 978-3-031-52034-1 DE-He213 20251030111507.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240311s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031520341 978-3-031-52034-1 10.1007/978-3-031-52034-1 doi PZ4.2-90 DSY bicssc LIT009000 bisacsh DSY thema Holdsworth, Dylan. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 72690 The Government of Disability in Dystopian Children’s Texts [electronic resource] / by Dylan Holdsworth. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XXXVIII, 194 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Critical Approaches to Children's Literature, 2753-0833 Introduction: Worlds of Difference -- Chapter 1 -Goblin-ology: Eugenics and hysterisation in George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin (1872) -- Chapter 2 -"Lonely, tender, passionate heart": Melancholy and Isolation in Dinah Mulock Craik's The Little Lame Prince and his Traveling Cloak (1875) -- Chapter 3 -Building Beasties: Disability, Imperialism and Violence in William Golding's Lord of the Flies (1954) -- Chapter 4 -On the Fringes: John Wyndham's The Chrysalids (1955) and Technologies of the Self -- Chapter 5 -"A Perversion of Nature? How Exciting!": Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990), the Freak, the Monster and the Limits of Inclusion -- Chapter 6 -"Blind. Deaf. Disabled. Wheelchair": Community, History and Resistance in Jane Stemp's Waterbound (1995) -- Chapter 7 -"This Magic Keeps Me Alive, but it's Making Me Crazy!": Amputation, Madness and Control in Adventure Time (2009-2018) -- Chapter 8 -"Loss is Loss is Loss": Embodying the Family-as-Trauma in Julianna Baggott's Pure (2012). 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. Children's literature. Interpretation, Literary. 72691 People with disabilities Education. 67591 Children's Literature. Literary Interpretation. 72692 Education and Disability. 67592 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031520334 Printed edition: 9783031520358 Printed edition: 9783031520365 Critical Approaches to Children's Literature, 2753-0833 72693 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52034-1 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 58199 58199