Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation

Ato Quayson

Paper, 264 pages,
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June, 2007
Cloth, 264 pages,
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Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Aesthetic Nervousness

2. A Typology of Disability Representation

3. Samuel Beckett: Disability as Hermeneutical Impasse

4. Toni Morrison: Disability, Ambiguity, and Perspectival Modulations

5. Wole Soyinka: Disability, Maimed Rites, and the Systemic Uncanny

6. J. M. Coetzee: Speech, Silence, Autism, and Dialogism

7. The Repeating Island: Race, Difference, Disability, and the Heterogeneities of Robben Island’s History

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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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