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The Government of Disability in Dystopian Children's Texts

The Government of Disability in Dystopian Children's Texts

Holdsworth, Dylan

Hardcover

Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature

Literary CriticismSpecial Education

ISBN10: 3031520335
ISBN13: 9783031520334
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Mar 12 2024
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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