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Aesthetic nervousness: disability and the crisis of representation

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PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Aesthetic Nervousness2. A Typology of Disability Representation3. Samuel Beckett: Disability as Hermeneutical Impasse4. Toni Morrison: Disability, Ambiguity, and Perspectival Modulations5. Wole Soyinka: Disability, Maimed Rites, and the Systemic Uncanny6. J. M. Coetzee: Speech, Silence, Autism, and Dialogism7. The Repeating Island: Race, Difference, Disability, and the Heterogeneities of Robben Island's HistoryConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Key concepts: Representation (politics), Psychology, Aesthetics, Political science, Art, Law, Politics