Arab Islamic voices, agencies, and abilities : disability portrayals in Muslim world literature and culture / / Saloua Aali Ben Zahra |
Autore | Ben Zahra Saloua Ali |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (140 pages) |
Disciplina | 809/.933527 |
Soggetto topico |
People with disabilities in motion pictures
Literature, Modern - Muslim authors - History and criticism People with disabilities in literature |
ISBN | 1-4985-6958-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Al Qur'an's teachings with respect to the disabled -- The Tunisian deaf mute through the lens of American Orientalism -- Tunisian camera's treatment of disability -- The disabled native: ressource humaine for the French: a literary study of Algerian Rachid Mimouni's Tombéza -- The case of female characters with disabilities: Moroccan Fatima vs. "cure or kill": a disability study of Tabar Ben Jelloun's L'enfant de sable [Sand child] -- Disability and shame in Salman Rushdie's novel Shame: what it means to be a Pakistani disabled postcolonial woman -- The Egyptian visually-challenged Sheikh Husni's treatment of blindness in the Egyptian film Al Kitkat -- Iraqi in Paris: speaking volumes: the bond in deafness of an Iraqi father and son -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796649003321 |
Ben Zahra Saloua Ali | ||
Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Arab Islamic voices, agencies, and abilities : disability portrayals in Muslim world literature and culture / / Saloua Aali Ben Zahra |
Autore | Ben Zahra Saloua Ali |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (140 pages) |
Disciplina | 809/.933527 |
Soggetto topico |
People with disabilities in motion pictures
Literature, Modern - Muslim authors - History and criticism People with disabilities in literature |
ISBN | 1-4985-6958-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Al Qur'an's teachings with respect to the disabled -- The Tunisian deaf mute through the lens of American Orientalism -- Tunisian camera's treatment of disability -- The disabled native: ressource humaine for the French: a literary study of Algerian Rachid Mimouni's Tombéza -- The case of female characters with disabilities: Moroccan Fatima vs. "cure or kill": a disability study of Tabar Ben Jelloun's L'enfant de sable [Sand child] -- Disability and shame in Salman Rushdie's novel Shame: what it means to be a Pakistani disabled postcolonial woman -- The Egyptian visually-challenged Sheikh Husni's treatment of blindness in the Egyptian film Al Kitkat -- Iraqi in Paris: speaking volumes: the bond in deafness of an Iraqi father and son -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809909703321 |
Ben Zahra Saloua Ali | ||
Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Disability and modern fiction : Faulkner, Morrison, Coetzee and the Nobel Prize for literature / / Alice Hall |
Autore | Hall Alice |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2012.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933527 |
Soggetto topico |
Fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
People with disabilities in literature Mind and body in literature Nobel Prize winners |
ISBN |
1-283-36090-X
9786613360908 0-230-35547-1 |
Classificazione | LIT004010LIT004020LIT000000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; List of Illustration; Acknowledgements; 1 Disability and Modern Fiction: Charting New Territory; 2 Tales Told by an Idiot: Disability and Sensory Perception in William Faulkner's Fiction and Criticism; 3 Foreign Bodies: Disability and Beauty in the Works of Toni Morrison; 4 Dialectics of Dependency: Ageing and Disability in J. M. Coetzee's Later Writing; 5 Disability as Metaphor: The Nobel Prize Lectures of Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee; 6 Conclusion: 'You Can't Just Fly on off and Leave a Body'; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814262203321 |
Hall Alice | ||
New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Disability in the Middle Ages [[electronic resource] ] : rehabilitations, reconsiderations, reverberations / / Joshua Eyler |
Autore | Eyler Joshua |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933527 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Medieval - History and criticism
People with disabilities in literature People with disabilities - History - To 1500 |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-317-15019-8
1-317-15018-X 1-282-54517-5 9786612545177 1-4094-0295-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; 7 Protecting or Restraining? Madness as a Disability in Late Medieval France; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction Breaking Boundaries, Building Bridges; Part 1 Reconsiderations; 1 Disability and the Suppression of Historical Identity: Rediscovering the Professional Backgrounds of the Blind Residents of t; 2 'O Sweete Venym Queynte!': Pregnancy and the Disabled Female Body in the Merchant's Tale; 3 Playing by Ear: Compensation, Reclamation, and Prosthesis in Fourteenth-Century Song
4 Representations of Disability in the Thirteenth-Century Miracles de Saint Louis 5 The Exemplary Blindness of Francis of Assisi; 6 Experience, Authority, and the Mediation of Deafness: Chaucer's Wife of Bath; 8 Representations of Disability: The Medieval Literary Tradition of the Fisher King; 9 'There is moore mysshapen amonges thise beggeres': Discourses of Disability in Piers Plowman; 10 Kingly Impairments in Anglo-Saxon Literature: God's Curse and God's Blessing; 11 Difference and Disability: On the Logic of Naming in the Icelandic Sagas; Part 2 Reverberations 12 Henryson's Textual and Narrative Prosthesis onto Chaucer's Corpus: Cresseid's Leprosy and Her Schort Conclusioun 13 A Medieval King 'Disabled' by an Early Modern Construct: A Contextual Examination of Richard III; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458903903321 |
Eyler Joshua | ||
Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Disability in the Middle Ages : rehabilitations, reconsiderations, reverberations / / Joshua Eyler |
Autore | Eyler Joshua |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933527 |
Altri autori (Persone) | EylerJoshua |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Medieval - History and criticism
People with disabilities in literature People with disabilities - History - To 1500 |
ISBN |
1-315-57738-0
1-317-15019-8 1-317-15018-X 1-282-54517-5 9786612545177 1-4094-0295-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; 7 Protecting or Restraining? Madness as a Disability in Late Medieval France; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction Breaking Boundaries, Building Bridges; Part 1 Reconsiderations; 1 Disability and the Suppression of Historical Identity: Rediscovering the Professional Backgrounds of the Blind Residents of t; 2 'O Sweete Venym Queynte!': Pregnancy and the Disabled Female Body in the Merchant's Tale; 3 Playing by Ear: Compensation, Reclamation, and Prosthesis in Fourteenth-Century Song
4 Representations of Disability in the Thirteenth-Century Miracles de Saint Louis 5 The Exemplary Blindness of Francis of Assisi; 6 Experience, Authority, and the Mediation of Deafness: Chaucer's Wife of Bath; 8 Representations of Disability: The Medieval Literary Tradition of the Fisher King; 9 'There is moore mysshapen amonges thise beggeres': Discourses of Disability in Piers Plowman; 10 Kingly Impairments in Anglo-Saxon Literature: God's Curse and God's Blessing; 11 Difference and Disability: On the Logic of Naming in the Icelandic Sagas; Part 2 Reverberations 12 Henryson's Textual and Narrative Prosthesis onto Chaucer's Corpus: Cresseid's Leprosy and Her Schort Conclusioun 13 A Medieval King 'Disabled' by an Early Modern Construct: A Contextual Examination of Richard III; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792404003321 |
Eyler Joshua | ||
Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Disability in the Middle Ages : rehabilitations, reconsiderations, reverberations / / Joshua Eyler |
Autore | Eyler Joshua R |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933527 |
Altri autori (Persone) | EylerJoshua R |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Medieval - History and criticism
People with disabilities in literature People with disabilities - History - To 1500 |
ISBN |
1-315-57738-0
1-317-15019-8 1-317-15018-X 1-282-54517-5 9786612545177 1-4094-0295-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; 7 Protecting or Restraining? Madness as a Disability in Late Medieval France; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction Breaking Boundaries, Building Bridges; Part 1 Reconsiderations; 1 Disability and the Suppression of Historical Identity: Rediscovering the Professional Backgrounds of the Blind Residents of t; 2 'O Sweete Venym Queynte!': Pregnancy and the Disabled Female Body in the Merchant's Tale; 3 Playing by Ear: Compensation, Reclamation, and Prosthesis in Fourteenth-Century Song
4 Representations of Disability in the Thirteenth-Century Miracles de Saint Louis 5 The Exemplary Blindness of Francis of Assisi; 6 Experience, Authority, and the Mediation of Deafness: Chaucer's Wife of Bath; 8 Representations of Disability: The Medieval Literary Tradition of the Fisher King; 9 'There is moore mysshapen amonges thise beggeres': Discourses of Disability in Piers Plowman; 10 Kingly Impairments in Anglo-Saxon Literature: God's Curse and God's Blessing; 11 Difference and Disability: On the Logic of Naming in the Icelandic Sagas; Part 2 Reverberations 12 Henryson's Textual and Narrative Prosthesis onto Chaucer's Corpus: Cresseid's Leprosy and Her Schort Conclusioun 13 A Medieval King 'Disabled' by an Early Modern Construct: A Contextual Examination of Richard III; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808204703321 |
Eyler Joshua R | ||
Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Postcolonial fiction and disability : exceptional children, metaphor and materiality / / Clare Barker |
Autore | Barker Clare <1980-> |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2011.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 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 |
ISBN |
1-283-38136-2
9786613381361 0-230-36000-9 |
Classificazione | LIT008000LIT004120LIT000000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824320603321 |
Barker Clare <1980-> | ||
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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