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Author:

Quayson, Ato.

Title:

Aesthetic nervousness : disability and the crisis of representation / Ato Quayson.

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xvi, 246 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

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.

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.

ISBN:

0231511175 (e-book)
9780231511179 (e-book)
0231139039 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780231139038 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0231139020 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780231139021 (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)76073673

LCCN:

2006035957

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)