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Disability and Modern Fiction

Faulkner, Morrison, Coetzee and the Nobel Prize for Literature

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  • © 2012

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  1. Alice Hall
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Disability and Modern Fiction: Charting New Territory

    • Alice Hall
    Pages 1-19

  3. Tales Told by an Idiot: Disability and Sensory Perception in William Faulkner’s Fiction and Criticism

    • Alice Hall
    Pages 20-48

  4. Foreign Bodies: Disability and Beauty in the Works of Toni Morrison

    • Alice Hall
    Pages 49-91

  5. Dialectics of Dependency: Ageing and Disability in J. M. Coetzee’s Later Writing

    • Alice Hall
    Pages 92-144

  6. Disability as Metaphor: The Nobel Prize Lectures of Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee

    • Alice Hall
    Pages 145-174

  7. Conclusion: ‘You Can’t Just Fly on off and Leave a Body’

    • Alice Hall
    Pages 175-183

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 184-220
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About this book

Focusing on Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee as authors, critics and Nobel Prize-winning intellectuals, this book explores shifting representations of disability in 20th and 21st century literature and proposes new ways of reading their works in relation to one another, whilst highlighting the ethical, aesthetic and imaginative challenges they pose.

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'This book is one of the best literary critical accounts I have read in a long time. Hall writes with great clarity and addresses the complexity of 'disability' in a highly intelligent and nuanced manner. Her insights into the representation of disability in the fiction of Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee are first rate.' - Paul Crawford, Professor of Health Humanities, University of Nottingham, UK

About the author

ALICE HALL currently works at Université Paris Diderot and she recently completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Nottingham, UK. She holds an MPhil in Criticism and Culture and a PhD in Contemporary Literature from the University of Cambridge, UK


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