Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation

Ato Quayson

Paper, 264 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13903-8
$25.50 / £15.00

June, 2007
Cloth, 264 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13902-1
$72.00 / £42.50

"The disabled body has historically invited, compelled, and incited a variety of responses almost in spite of whatever specific impairments may be at issue. Even though in Western societies the disabled are no longer directly linked in the social imaginary to monsters and criminals, persons with disabilities, located on the margins of society, have historically taken on the coloration of whatever else is perceived to also lie on that social margin."-From the introduction

Related Subjects

• Literary Criticism and Theory

About the Author

Ato Quayson is professor of English and inaugural director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. He taught for ten years on the Faculty of English and was also director of the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cambridge. He has also published widely on African literature, literary theory, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies.

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