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Disability in South Asia: Knowledge & Experience presents a comprehensive approach to various aspects of disability in South Asia. A critical work on disability studies, this book explores the full complexity of disability in its multi-layered, interactional dynamics. The book imparts understanding of the social, political and cultural construction of disability as opposed to the traditional perception of disability in terms of medical condition, biological trait, rehabilitation and special education. It focuses on foregrounding disability across various areas including education, law and sociology, critically exploring the interaction of gender and disability, and challenging the separation between theory and practice as well as academia and activism. The book shows how the inclusion of a disability perspective enriches scholarship by contributing to the understanding of social marginalization, oppression and the perception of difference. It highlights the lived experiences of people with disabilities to help readers develop a nuanced comprehension of disability.
Life-Writing and Disabled Self in the Works of Oliver W. Sacks
Life-Writing and Disabled Self in the Works of Oliver W. Sacks
The term life-writing is not easy to define as it encompasses varied modes of self-narratives and it does not follow any one particular style, structure, theme, trope or literary genre. Several critics have attempted to define this form of writing by extending their horizons to all possible forms of self—confessional, experiential and recollective. Life-writing, as Zachary Leader defines it, ‘is a generic term used to describe a range of writings about lives or parts of lives, or which provide materials out of which lives or parts of lives are composed’ (2015, 1). Life-writing as a form ...
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