Aesthetic Nervousness Disability and the Crisis of Representation

Name: Aesthetic Nervousness Disability and the Crisis of Representation
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ISBN: 9780231139038

ISBN-10: 0231139039

ISBN-13: 9780231139038

Edition: 2007 (Annotated)

Authors: Ato Quayson

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Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J. M. Coetzee, Ato Quayson launches a thoroughly cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of the representation of physical disability. Quayson suggests that the subliminal unease and moral panic invoked by the disabled is refracted within the structures of literature and literary discourse itself, a crisis he terms "aesthetic nervousness." The disabled reminds the able-bodied that the body is provisional and temporary and that normality is wrapped up in certain social frameworks. Quayson expands his argument by turning to Greek and Yoruba writings, African American and postcolonial literature, depictions of…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 6/29/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 0.72" wide x 0.92" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



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


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index