Introduction -- On kinship with literary characters: the power of fiction -- Between indigenous beliefs and colonial invasion: the vital role of disability -- in Achebe's Things fall apart -- Extraordinary bodies: magic realism, disability, and Rushdie's Midnight's children -- How met...

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Main Author:	Krentz, Christopher (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia ; Rome ; Tokyo Temple University Press 2022
Subjects:	Postkolonialismus Behinderung > Motiv Literatur Englisch Disabilities in literature People with disabilities in literature Postcolonialism in literature Human rights in literature
Summary:	Introduction -- On kinship with literary characters: the power of fiction -- Between indigenous beliefs and colonial invasion: the vital role of disability -- in Achebe's Things fall apart -- Extraordinary bodies: magic realism, disability, and Rushdie's Midnight's children -- How metaphor can also be realism: disability and rights in Coetzee's fiction -- A sense of care: women writing disabled women in the global South -- The limits of human rights: twenty-first-century depictions of war, poverty, global capitalism, and disability "This volume analyzes the figure and representation of disability in postcolonial literature, unpacking how depictions of disability both reflected and directly impacted the growth of disability human rights in the latter half of the twentieth century"--
Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:	187 Seiten
ISBN:	9781439922217 9781439922224