Description: Disanimality explores different ways of thinking about people with disabilities or chronic and terminal illnesses in relation to animals and advocacy for animal rights. The juxtaposition of disability, illness, and animality can be uncomfortable for many disability advocates, particularly if the suggestion is that the mistreatment of animals is somehow just like the mistreatment of people with disabilities. Lundblad labels that feeling of discomfort disanimality, exploring it through contemporary American novels, memoirs, and films. Instead of oversimplified comparisons, the book foregrounds theories from the fields of posthumanism, biopolitics, and animality studies, suggesting better ways of bringing together disability, illness, and animality.
