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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Barker, Clarence (18..-19.. ; compositeur)
Titre(s) : Postcolonial fiction and disability [Texte électronique] : exceptional children, metaphor and materiality / Clare Barker
Publication : Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (1 volume)
Note(s) : Postcolonial Fiction and Disability explores the politics and aesthetics of disability
in postcolonial literature. The first book to make sustained connections between postcolonial
writing and disability studies, it focuses on the figure of the exceptional child
in well-known novels by Grace, Dangarembga, Sidhwa, Rushdie, and Okri. While the fictional
lives of disabled child characters are frequently intertwined with postcolonial histories,
providing potent metaphors for national 'damage' and vulnerability, Barker argues
that postcolonial writers are equally concerned with the complexity of disability
as lived experience. The study focuses on constructions of normalcy, the politics
of medicine and healthcare, and questions of citizenship and belonging in order to
demonstrate how progressive health and disability politics often emerge organically
from writers' postcolonial concerns. In reframing disability as a mode of exceptionality,
the book assesses the cultural and political insights that derive from portrayals
of disability, showing how postcolonial writing can contribute conceptually towards
building more inclusive futures for disabled people worldwide.
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Palgrave Connect (Online service). Auteur ou responsable intellectuel
Sujet(s) : Littérature postcoloniale
Genre ou forme : Roman anglais
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780230360006
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb437071649
Notice n° :
FRBNF43707164
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 'Decrepit, Deranged, Deformed': Indigeneity and
Cultural Health in Potiki -- Hunger, Normalcy, and Postcolonial Disorder in Nervous
Conditions and The Book of Not -- Cracking India and Partition: Dismembering the National
Body -- The Nation as Freak Show: Monstrosity and Biopolitics in Midnight's Children
-- 'Redreaming the World': Ontological Difference and Abiku Perception in The Famished
Road -- Conclusion: Growing Up -- Bibliography -- Index.
