Aesthetic Nervousness Disability and the Crisis of Representation

Name: Aesthetic Nervousness Disability and the Crisis of Representation
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ISBN: 9780231511179

ISBN-10: 0231511175

ISBN-13: 9780231511179

Edition: 2007

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.

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List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 6/29/2007
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long
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