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Postcolonial fiction and disabilityexceptional children, metaphor and materiality /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Postcolonial fiction and disabilityClare Barker.
Reminder of title:	exceptional children, metaphor and materiality /
Author:	Barker, Clare.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2011.
Description:	1 online resource (1 v.) :ill.
Subject:	English fictionHistory and criticism.20th century
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9780230360006 (electronic bk.)

Postcolonial fiction and disabilityexceptional children, metaphor and materiality /
Barker, Clare.

Postcolonial fiction and disabilityexceptional children, metaphor and materiality /[electronic resource] :Clare Barker. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2011. - 1 online resource (1 v.) :ill.

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.

Postcolonial Fiction and Disability explores the politics and aesthetics of disability in postcolonial literature. The first book to make sustained connections between postcolonial writing and disability studies, it focuses on the figure of the exceptional child in well-known novels by Grace, Dangarembga, Sidhwa, Rushdie, and Okri. While the fictional lives of disabled child characters are frequently intertwined with postcolonial histories, providing potent metaphors for national 'damage' and vulnerability, Barker argues that postcolonial writers are equally concerned with the complexity of disability as lived experience. The study focuses on constructions of normalcy, the politics of medicine and healthcare, and questions of citizenship and belonging in order to demonstrate how progressive health and disability politics often emerge organically from writers' postcolonial concerns. In reframing disability as a mode of exceptionality, the book assesses the cultural and political insights that derive from portrayals of disability, showing how postcolonial writing can contribute conceptually towards building more inclusive futures for disabled people worldwide.

ISBN: 9780230360006 (electronic bk.)

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LC Class. No.: PR881 / .B37 2011eb

Dewey Class. No.: 823.91409

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