Aesthetic nervousness
Subtitle: disability and the crisis of representation
By: Ato Quayson.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780231139021; 9780231139038; 9780231511179
Subjects: Beckett, Samuel, -- 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation.; Soyinka, Wole -- Criticism and interpretation.; Coetzee, J. M., -- 1940- -- Criticism and interpretation.; People with disabilities in literature.; Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism.; Abnormalities, Human, in literature.; People with disabilities -- Social conditions.; Diseases and literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : aesthetic nervousness; title: A typology of disability representation; title: Samuel Beckett : disability as hermeneutical impasse; title: Toni Morrison : disability, ambiguity, and perspectival modulations; title: Wole Soyinka : disability, maimed rites, and the systemic uncanny; title: J.M. Coetzee : speech, silence, autism, and dialogism; title: The repeating island : race, difference, disability, and the heterogeneities of Robben Island's history.