Aesthetic nervousness : disability and the crisis of representation /
Ato Quayson.
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
- xvi, 246 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
9780231139038 (pbk. : acidfree paper) $30.00
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 --Criticism and interpretation.
Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism. Abnormalities, Human, in literature. People with disabilities--Social conditions. Diseases and literature.