03883nam 22008055 450 991078989200332120200920110608.01-283-38136-297866133813610-230-36000-910.1057/9780230360006(CKB)2670000000132219(EBL)832181(OCoLC)769139351(SSID)ssj0000571150(PQKBManifestationID)11335834(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000571150(PQKBWorkID)10611692(PQKB)10745085(DE-He213)978-0-230-36000-6(MiAaPQ)EBC832181(EXLCZ)99267000000013221920151209d2011 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPostcolonial Fiction and Disability[electronic resource] Exceptional Children, Metaphor and Materiality /by C. Barker1st ed. 2011.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2011.1 online resource (253 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-33878-8 0-230-30788-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Literature   Literature, Modern—20th centuryLiterature—PhilosophyCulture—Study and teachingOriental literatureBritish literaturePostcolonial/World Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/838000Twentieth-Century Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000Literary Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/812000Cultural Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411130Asian Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/831000British and Irish Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/833000Literature   .Literature, Modern—20th century.Literature—Philosophy.Culture—Study and teaching.Oriental literature.British literature.Postcolonial/World Literature.Twentieth-Century Literature.Literary Theory.Cultural Theory.Asian Literature.British and Irish Literature.809.933527823.91409LIT008000LIT004120LIT000000bisacshBarker Cauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut369389BOOK9910789892003321Postcolonial Fiction and Disability3868663UNINA