Reading Disability in a Time of Posthuman Work: Speed and Embodiment in Joshua Ferris' The Unnamed and Michael Faber's Under the Skin
This article analyzes a contemporary posthuman culture of work through a critical disability optic and, in particular, examines the disability aesthetics employed by Ferris and Faber in their novels. It opens with an outline of how contemporary post-industrial work cultures fixate on notions of spee...
Main Author: | Stuart Murray |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Ohio State University Libraries
2017-11-01
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Series: | Disability Studies Quarterly |
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Online Access: | http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/6104 |
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