03476nam 22008895 450 991096645960332120240508222718.09786613381361978128338136912833813629780230360006023036000910.1057/9780230360006(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(Perlego)3498750(EXLCZ)99267000000013221920151209d2011 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPostcolonial Fiction and Disability 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.9781349338788 1349338788 9780230307889 0230307884 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.LiteratureLiterature, Modern20th centuryLiteraturePhilosophyCultureStudy and teachingOriental literatureEuropean literatureWorld LiteratureTwentieth-Century LiteratureLiterary TheoryCultural TheoryAsian LiteratureEuropean LiteratureLiterature.Literature, ModernLiteraturePhilosophy.CultureStudy and teaching.Oriental literature.European literature.World Literature.Twentieth-Century Literature.Literary Theory.Cultural Theory.Asian Literature.European Literature.809/.933527LIT008000LIT004120LIT000000bisacshBarker Clare1980-1793467MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910966459603321Postcolonial Fiction and Disability4333292UNINA