The Routledge companion to literature and disability The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability brings together some of the most influential and important contemporary perspectives in this growing field. The book traces the history of the field and locates literary disability studies in the wider context of activism and theory. It introduces debates about definitions of disability and explores intersectional approaches in which disability is understood in relation to gender race class sexuality nationality and ethnicity. Divided broadly into sections according to literary genre this is an important resource for those interested in exploring and deepening their knowledge of the field of literature and disability studies Disability in indigenous literature Siobhan Senier Disability in black speculative fiction Sami Schalk t4t : towards a crip ethics of trans literary criticism Cameron Awkward Rich Challenging photocentrism : writing signs and bilingual deaf literatures Kristen Harmon Here there be monsters : mapping novel representations of the relationship between disability and monstrosity in recent graphic narratives and comic books Chris Foss Spectrality strangeness and stigmaphilia : gothic and critical disability studies Sara Wasson Contemporary horror and disability : adaptations and active readers Petra Kuppers From changelings to libtards : intellectual disability in the eighteenth century and beyond D. Christopher Gabbard Crip gothic : affiliations of disability and queerness in Horace Walpoles The Castle of Otranto (1764) Jason Farr Of wonderful use to everyone : disability and the marriage plot in the nineteenthcentury novel Clare Walker Gore Afro modernism and black disability studies Jess Waggoner Whats the matter with him : Intellectual disability Jewishness and stereotype in Bernard Malamuds Idiots First Howard Sklar Metaphorical medicine : disability in anglophone Indian diction Stephanie Yorke Disability and contemporary literature : antinormative narratives of embodiment David Mitchell Poet and beggar : Edmund Whites Blindness Vanessa Warne Deafness and modernism Rebecca Sanchez The fury of loving joyfully : Amelia Rossellis War variations Elizabeth Leake Getting there : pain poetics and Canadian literature Shane Neilson Disability in contemporary poetry Johanna Emeney Disability poetry : testing the waters of definition Michael Northen Canadian disability dramaturgies Kirsty Johnston Disability and the American stage musical Samuel Yates Of scapegoats and men : Shane Meadows Dead mans shoes and the politics of learning disability Anna Harpin Disability drama and the problem of intersectional invisibility Ann M. Fox Puppets players and the poetics of vulnerability : Hijinxs Meet Fred and new directions in the theatres of learning disability Matt Hargrave Sex death and the welfare check : rhythms of disability and sexuality in David Wojnarowiczs Close to the knives Leon J. Hilton Disability narrative embodied aesthetics and cross media arts Stella Bolaki A grammar of touch : interdependencies of person place thing Shannon Walters Psychographics : graphic memoirs and psychiatric disability Elizabeth J. Donaldson Challenging the neurotypical : autism contemporary literature and digital textualities Hannah Tweed.