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Aesthetic nervousness : disability and the crisis of representation
- Title
- Aesthetic nervousness : disability and the crisis of representation / Ato Quayson.
- Author
- Quayson, Ato.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 246 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Soyinka, Wole > Criticism and interpretation
- Abnormalities, Human, in literature
- People with disabilities in literature
- Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism
- People with disabilities > Social conditions
- Diseases and literature
- Morrison, Toni > Criticism and interpretation
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 > Criticism and interpretation
- Coetzee, J. M., 1940- > Criticism and interpretation
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-242) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-5211
- ISBN
- 9780231139021 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 0231139020 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 9780231139038 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 0231139039 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2006035957
- OCLC
- 76073673
- Author
- Quayson, Ato.
- Title
- Aesthetic nervousness : disability and the crisis of representation / Ato Quayson.
- Imprint
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-242) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-5211