Aesthetic nervousness : disability and the crisis of representation

Quayson, Ato. (Author).

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

Content descriptions

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.