Postcolonial fiction and disability : exceptional children, metaphor and materiality / / Clare Barker

• Autore: Barker Clare <1980->
• Pubblicazione: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2011.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.933527
• Soggetto topico: Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Fiction - 21st century - History and criticism; People with disabilities in literature; Children in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Metaphor in literature
• Classificazione: LIT008000LIT004120LIT000000
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Postcolonial fiction and disability
• ISBN: 1-283-38136-2; 9786613381361; 0-230-36000-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824320603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II