Introduction -- On kinship with literary characters: the power of fiction -- Between indigenous beliefs and colonial invasion: the vital role of disability -- in Achebe's Things fall apart -- Extraordinary bodies: magic realism, disability, and Rushdie's Midnight's children -- How metaphor can also be realism: disability and rights in Coetzee's fiction -- A sense of care: women writing disabled women in the global South -- The limits of human rights: twenty-first-century depictions of war, poverty, global capitalism, and disability
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"This volume analyzes the figure and representation of disability in postcolonial literature, unpacking how depictions of disability both reflected and directly impacted the growth of disability human rights in the latter half of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
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