Postcolonial Fiction and Disability: Exceptional Children, Metaphor and Materiality

This book is the first study of disability in postcolonial fiction. Focusing on canonical novels, it explores the metaphorical functions and material presence of disabled child characters. Barker argues that progressive disability politics emerge from postcolonial concerns, and establishes dialogues between postcolonialism and disability studies.

Author: C. Barker
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/06/2012
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780230307889

About the Author
CLARE BARKER Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham, UK.