Care and Disability

<p><b>Care and Disability</b> is an edited collection offering critical perspectives on representations of care and disability by emerging and established scholars across multiple periods regions and genres of literary studies.</p><p>The authors demonstrate the range of fields in which care ethics can elucidate alternative cultural and social dynamics including Indigenous African American and Asian texts and historical eras that predate the modern medical profession. This collection is committed to drawing out the changing racial gendered classed and sexual elements of care emphasizing how care communities develop as alternatives to the heteronormative couple and the nuclear family. Drawing from the care ethics and disability theory the work in this volume demonstrates the possibilities inherent in this new cutting-edge field.</p><p>It will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies care ethics sociology narrative medicine Romanticism eighteenth-century studies transatlantic nineteenth-century studies film and contemporary race studies.</p>