The Discourse of Disability
eBook - ePub

The Discourse of Disability

Indian Perspectives

  1. 172 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Discourse of Disability

Indian Perspectives

About this book

This book explores the concept of disability through a social, political, cultural, religious, and economics lens. It challenges the categorization of 'physically-disabled' produced by way of legal, medical, political, cultural, and literary narratives that comprise an exclusionary discourse.

The volume discusses themes like disability and identity politics; disability and the western epistemology; disability in India; disability and the Indian English fiction and Hindi cinema to question the embodied hegemony of 'norms' and their effects in the construction and history of societies. It analyses select literary and cinematic texts like Trying to Grow, Fireproof, and Animal's People; and movies, Black and Lafangey Parindey to critically examine the representation of disabled people as freak, monstrous and animal. The book also makes policy recommendations for inclusive education and work norms for disabled people.

This book will be beneficial for scholars and researchers of disability studies, cultural studies, film studies, and English literature.

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Yes, you can access The Discourse of Disability by Vivek Singh in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Sociology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781032881362
eBook ISBN
9781003861676
Edition
1
Subtopic
Sociology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. 1. Introduction
  11. 2. Disability Studies and Identity Politics
  12. 3. Disability and the Western Epistemology
  13. 4. Disability in India
  14. 5. Disability and Indian English Fiction
  15. 6. Disability and Hindi Cinema
  16. 7. New Directions for Future Work
  17. Bibliography
  18. Websites
  19. Further Reading