Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation

Columbia University Press (2007)
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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.

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