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Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature - Hardcover

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Characters with disabilities are often marginalized in fiction, but many occupy central places in literature by celebrated authors like Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, Anita Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, and others. These authors deploy disability to do important cultural work, writes Christopher Krentz in his innovative study, Elusive Kinship. Such representations not only relate to the millions of disabled people in the global South, but also make more vivid such issues as the effects of colonialism, global capitalism, racism and sexism, war, and environmental disaster. Krentz is the first to put the fields of postcolonial studies, studies of human rights and literature, and literary disability in conversation with each other in a book-length study. He enhances our appreciation of key texts of Anglophone postcolonial literature of the global South, including Things Fall Apart and Midnight's Children. In addition, he uncovers the myriad ways fiction gains energy, vitality, and metaphoric force from characters with extraordinary bodies or minds. Depicting injustices faced by characters with disabilities is vital to raising awareness and achieving human rights. Elusive Kinship nudges us toward a fuller understanding of disability worldwide.
  • | Author: Christopher Krentz
  • | Publisher: Temple University Press
  • | Publication Date: Apr 22, 2022
  • | Number of Pages: 198 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Hardcover
  • | ISBN-10: 1439922217
  • | ISBN-13: 9781439922217
Author:
Christopher Krentz
Publisher:
Temple University Press
Publication Date:
Apr 22, 2022
Number of pages:
198 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN-10:
1439922217
ISBN-13:
9781439922217