Disability in Wonderland: Health and Normativity in Speculative Utopias

by Amanda Martin Sandino

Overview

Adult-directed utopian fiction has historically rejected depictions of persons with disabilities, underrepresenting a community that comprises an estimated 15% of the world's population. From the earliest stories of utopias written for and about children, however, persons with disabilities have been included in abundance, and are central to classic narratives like The Wizard of Oz and Winnie the Pooh. In a perfect world centered on children and their caretakers, these works argue, characters with a diverse range of bodies and minds must flourish. Spanning from Lewis Carroll's 1865 Alice in Wonderland to Jordan Peele's 2019 film Us, this examination of the wonderland demonstrates the role that bodily and neurological diversity plays in an ever-popular subgenre.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476683034
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	05/01/2023
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Amanda Martin Sandino is a lecturer in critical gender studies at the University of California, San Diego. The focus of her work looks at the intersections of futurity, disability, and fantasy.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter
Crip Futurity and Literary Utopias  33
Chapter
Finding Criptopia in Baum’s Oz Series  69
Chapter
Middle Era Wonderlands: A Turn to the Dark Side  94
Chapter
Alienation and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory  105
Chapter
Nostalgia, Fan Fiction, and the Wayward Children Series  117
Chapter
The Underland and the Rejection of the Medical Model of Disability  137
Chapter
Alice in the Underland  157
Conclusions  170
Chapter Notes  175
Works Cited  177
Index  191