Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation

by Ato Quayson

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Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J. M. Coetzee, Ato Quayson launches a thoroughly cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of the representation of physical disability. Quayson suggests that the subliminal unease and moral panic invoked by the disabled is refracted within the structures of literature and literary discourse itself, a crisis he terms "aesthetic nervousness." The disabled reminds the able-bodied...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0231139039

ISBN13:9780231139038

Release Date:June 2007

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy Social Science Social Sciences

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