The Discourse of Disability

ISBN-13: 9781032536194 / Twarda / 2024 / 176 str.

India) Singh Vivek (Banaras Hindu University

Opis

This book explores the concept of disability through a social, political, cultural, religious, and economics lens. It challenges the categorization of ‘physically-disabled’ produced by way of legal, medical, political, cultural, and literary narratives that comprise an exclusionary discourse.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Disability and Identity Politics  3. Disability and the Western Epistemology  4. Disability in India   5. Disability and the Indian English Fiction  6. Disability and the Hindi Cinema  7. New Directions for Future

O autorze

Vivek Singh is Assistant Professor of English at Banaras Hindu University, India. He pursued his Ph.D. from the University of English and Foreign Languages, India. To pursue his research, he went to Potsdam University, Berlin, and received DAAD fellowship. He has delivered more than fifteen lectures in various reputed institutions and has published more than ten papers in international journals. His edited works include The Crisis in Humanity (2022). Currently, he works as a language instructor and cultural ambassador in Mississippi Valley State University, Mississsippi, USA.