The book delves into the representation of disabled child characters in postcolonial fiction, analyzing both their metaphorical roles and tangible presence in canonical novels. It posits that progressive disability politics are intertwined with postcolonial issues, creating a dialogue between the two fields. Through this exploration, the author highlights how disability serves as a critical lens for understanding broader postcolonial themes.
Introduction: on reading disability in literature Clare Barker and Stuart
Murray; Part I. Across Literatures: 2. Monsters, saints, and sinners:
disability in Medieval literature Edward Wheatley; 3. Early modern literature
and disability studies Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood; 4.
Disability and deformity: function impairment and aesthetics in the long
eighteenth century Essaka Joshua; 5. Embodying affliction in nineteenth-
century fiction Martha Stoddard Holmes; 6. Paralyzed modernities and
biofutures: bodies and minds in modern literature Michael Davidson; 7. The
ambiguities of inclusion: disability in contemporary literature Stuart Murray;
8. 'Radiant affliction': disability narratives in postcolonial literature
Clare Barker; Part II. Across Critical Methods: 9. Disability and the edges of
intersectionality Alison Kafer and Eunjung Kim; 10. The world-making potential
of contemporary crip/queer literary and cultural production Robert McRuer; 11.
Race and disability in US literature Michelle Jarman; 12. Disability and
women's writing Sami Schalk; 13. Disability in genre fiction Ria Cheyne; 14.
Signifying selves: disability and life writing G. Thomas Couser; 15.
Disability rhetorics Jay Dolmage; 16. Afterword Petra Kuppers.
