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

1399522574 pdf This 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 cultural denigration of disability experience.