Disability Duplicity and the Formative Cultural Identity Politics of Generation X

David Bolt is Professor of Disability Studies and Interdisciplinarity at Liverpool Hope University, where he is Director of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies and the Disability Studies MA. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies and his work has been internationally recognised in education, the humanities, and the social sciences.

• 0.Prologue. 1.Toy Man: Figuring Out the Play Figure. 2.Mr Moral: Animating the Ordinary via the Extraordinary. 3. Made in Misterland: Rain and Shine on the Identity Parade. 4.Comic Priming: To Read and Subscribe. 5.Power and Palaver: Medicalisation of the Funny Film Franchise. 6.Happy Hill: Teenage Television and the Half-Hour Antihero. 7.No Futurity: Non-normative Affinities with the Punk Rock Movement. 8.Anarchy in the Comedy: A Complete and Utter Alternative. 9.Epilogue.

David Bolt’s Disability Duplicity and the Formative Cultural Identity Politics of Generation X is the latest of four monographs in Routledge’s Autocritical Disability Studies series. Internationally recognized as a foundational scholar within the field of critical disability studies, Bolt has done much to welcome newcomers into what he has helped become a truly interdisciplinary domain. He is both the author of this beautifully crafted monograph and the editor of this pioneering series that “represents both a contribution to, and a departure from, the academic field of critical disability studies” (ii) by addressing unease that the latter has inadequately considered the lived experiences and political concerns of disabled people. The titles within this collection blend critical disability theory, which commonly emphasizes textual analysis, with autoethnography—a coupling of autobiography and ethnography—where researchers investigate culture and society through their personal experiences and reflections. This enlightening text demonstrates that there are still so many ways to grow cultural and literary disability studies. David Bolt continues to take us in promising directions.Chloë HughesWestern Oregon University