Elusive kinship : disability and human rights in postcolonial literature /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Krentz, Christopher (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2022].
Subjects:	Disabilities in literature. People with disabilities in literature. Postcolonialism in literature. Human rights in literature.

Table of Contents:

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
Sense of Care: Women Writing Disabled Women in the Global South
Limits of Human Rights: Twenty-First-Century Depictions of War, Poverty, Global Capitalism, and Disability
Epilogue.