TY - BOOK AU - Quayson,Ato TI - Aesthetic nervousness: disability and the crisis of representation SN - 9780231139038 (pbk. : acidfree paper) U1 - 303.385 22 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Beckett, Samuel, KW - Commonwealth literature (English) KW - History and criticism KW - Abnormalities, Human, in literature KW - People with disabilities KW - Social conditions KW - Diseases and literature N1 - 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 ER -