Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee

Name: Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee
Brand: Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press

Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction of J. M. CoetzeeAuthor(s): Pawe? Wojtas\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781399522588, 978-1399522588\nSynopsis\nThis study offers a detailed analysis of the fiction of J. M. Coetzee, including the novels of the South African and Australian periods, to demonstrate the development of Coetzees engagement with the complexities of non-normative embodiment. In this illuminating monograph, Pawe? Wojtas demonstrates the extent to which Coetzees multifaceted depictions of disability offer a sustained critique of the ableist implications of political violence and neoliberal inclusionism alike. Exploring a wide range of notions, such as ocularnormativism, mute speech, eco-disability, disability Gothic, dismodernism, autogerontography, and bibliotherapy, Wojtas shows how Coetzees disabled textuality provokes a sustained meditation on various forms of cultu.