Aesthetic nervousness: disability and the crisis of representation

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PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Aesthetic Nervousness2. A Typology of Disability Representation3. Samuel Beckett: Disability as Hermeneutical Impasse4. Toni Morrison: Disability, Ambiguity, and Perspectival Modulations5. Wole Soyinka: Disability, Maimed Rites, and the Systemic Uncanny6. J. M. Coetzee: Speech, Silence, Autism, and Dialogism7. The Repeating Island: Race, Difference, Disability, and the Heterogeneities of Robben Island's HistoryConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Samuel Beckett and Modernism Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Quality Education

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Published in: Choice Reviews Online

Volume 45, Issue 06, pp. 45-3080

DOI: 10.5860/choice.45-3080

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