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020 _a9780231139038 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
_c$30.00
040 _aIDSK
_cIDSK
_beng
041 _aeng
_heng
082 0 0 _a303.385
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_bQ19a
100 1 _aQuayson, Ato.
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245 1 0 _aAesthetic nervousness :
_bdisability and the crisis of representation /
_cAto Quayson.
260 _aNew York :
_bColumbia University Press,
_cc2007.
300 _axvi, 246 p. ;
_c22 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [231]-242) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : 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.
600 1 0 _aBeckett, Samuel,
_d1906-1989
_xCriticism and interpretation.
_9905
650 0 _aCommonwealth literature (English)
_xHistory and criticism.
_9906
650 0 _aAbnormalities, Human, in literature.
_9907
650 0 _aPeople with disabilities
_xSocial conditions.
_9908
650 0 _aDiseases and literature.
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