Contents
Preface - Mapping Identity: Disability and Other “Marked” Bodies
Introduction - Disability as Narrative Supplement
Chapter 1. Representation and Its Discontents: The Uneasy Home of Disability in Literature and Film
Chapter 2. Narrative Prosthesis and the Materiality of Metaphor
Chapter 3. Montaigne’s “Infinities of Formes” and Nietzsche’s “Higher Men”
Chapter 4. Performing Deformity: The Making and Unmaking of Richard III
Chapter 5. The Language of Prosthesis in Moby-Dick
Chapter 6. Modernist Freaks and Postmodern Geeks: Literary Contortions of the Disabled Body
Afterword “The first child born into the world was born deformed”: Disability Representations in These Times
Notes
Works Cited
Index