Aesthetic nervousness : disability and the crisis of representation / Ato Quayson.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: English Publication details: New York : Columbia University Press, c2007Description: xvi, 246 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780231139038 (pbk. : acidfree paper)Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation | Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism | Abnormalities, Human, in literature | People with disabilities -- Social conditions | Diseases and literatureDDC classification: 303.385 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Textual Documents | Institute of Development Studies Kolkata | 303.385 Q19d (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 8094 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-242) and index.
Introduction : aesthetic nervousness -- A typology of disability representation -- Samuel Beckett : disability as hermeneutical impasse -- Toni Morrison : disability, ambiguity, and perspectival modulations -- Wole Soyinka : disability, maimed rites, and the systemic uncanny -- J.M. Coetzee : speech, silence, autism, and dialogism -- The repeating island : race, difference, disability, and the heterogeneities of Robben Island's history.
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