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Aesthetic nervousness : disability and the crisis of representation  Cover Image Book Book

Aesthetic nervousness : disability and the crisis of representation / Ato Quayson.

Quayson, Ato. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780231139021 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • ISBN: 0231139020 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • ISBN: 9780231139038 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • ISBN: 0231139039 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • ISBN: 9780231511179 (e-book)
  • ISBN: 0231511175 (e-book)
  • Physical Description: xvi, 246 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-242) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: People with disabilities in literature.
Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism.
Abnormalities, Human, in literature.
People with disabilities > Social conditions.
Diseases and literature.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 > Criticism and interpretation.
Morrison, Toni > Criticism and interpretation.
Soyinka, Wole > Criticism and interpretation.
Coetzee, J. M., 1940- > Criticism and interpretation.

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