The Cambridge companion to American literature and the body /
This volume provides students of American literature with models and methods for approaching the question of embodiment. It underscores the body as at once dynamic, shaping our experience of the world through complex interplay between social and biological influences, and intersectional, resisting a...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Bodies in early US-Atlantic theater / Marvin McAllister
- Sentimentalism and the feeling body / Claudia Stokes
- Slavery, disability and the Black body/white body complex in the American slave narrative / Maurice Wallace
- Monstrous bodies of the American gothic / Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
- Bodies at war / Colleen Glenney Boggs
- Decolonizing the body in multiethnic American fiction / Sony CoraÌ?ñez Bolton
- Science fiction's humanoid bodies of the future / Frances Tran
- Contemporary North American transgender literature: realness, fantasy, and the body / Stephanie Clare
- Feminist theory, feminist criticism, and the sex/gender distinction / Christine "Xine" Yao
- Reading bodies and textual materialities / Thomas Constantinesco
- How to read disabled bodies in history / Erica Fretwell
- How to read disabled bodies now : crip of color critique / Anna Hinton
- Health humanities, illness, and the body in American literature / Lindsey Grubbs
- The indigenous body in American literature / Sean Teuton
- The Black body and the reading of race / Christine Okoth
- Ecocriticism and the body / Delia Byrnes.