Elusive kinship : disability and human rights in postcolonial literature Introduction On kinship with literary characters: the power of fiction Between indigenous beliefs and colonial invasion: the vital role of disability in Achebes Things fall apart Extraordinary bodies: magic realism disability and Rushdies Midnights children How metaphor can also be realism: disability and rights in Coetzees fiction A sense of care: women writing disabled women in the global South The limits of human rights: twenty first century depictions of war poverty global capitalism and disability This volume analyzes the figure and representation of disability in postcolonial literature unpacking how depictions of disability both reflected and directly impacted the growth of disability human rights in the latter half of the twentieth century