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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966459603321

Autore

Barker Clare <1980->

Titolo

Postcolonial Fiction and Disability : Exceptional Children, Metaphor and Materiality / / by C. Barker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011

ISBN

9786613381361

9781283381369

1283381362

9780230360006

0230360009

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Classificazione

LIT008000LIT004120LIT000000

Disciplina

809/.933527

Soggetti

Literature

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature - Philosophy

Culture - Study and teaching

Oriental literature

European literature

World Literature

Twentieth-Century Literature

Literary Theory

Cultural Theory

Asian Literature

European Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 'Decrepit, Deranged, Deformed': Indigeneity and Cultural Health in Potiki -- Hunger, Normalcy, and Postcolonial Disorder in Nervous Conditions and The Book of Not -- Cracking India and Partition: Dismembering the National Body -- The Nation as Freak Show: Monstrosity and Biopolitics in Midnight's Children -- 'Redreaming the World': Ontological Difference and Abiku



Perception in The Famished Road -- Conclusion: Growing Up -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first study of disability in postcolonial fiction. Focusing on canonical novels, it explores the metaphorical functions and material presence of disabled child characters. Barker argues that progressive disability politics emerge from postcolonial concerns, and establishes dialogues between postcolonialism and disability studies.