Why are abnormal figures at the heart of literary canon and what do they tell us about the society that writes and circulates these stories? This book studies the constitution of disability and discusses concepts of corporeal difference that are socio-historically rooted in the Indian cultural milieu.
The volume aims at looking at the central issue of the various aspects of disability representation, the impact of these representations on the materially embodied experience of disablement, the political imperatives shaping the narratives of corporeal difference, and the influences of highly particularised local cultural context on the constitution of epistemic and discursive notions of corporeality.
The volume follows 3 routes of inquiry: How do we find ‘disability’ in texts or, what are ‘disability texts’? How do we read concepts historically using literary and cultural texts and what would a similar study of the Indian context reveal? How do we study culturally distinct ways of narrating bodyminds? These questions will be answered through a discussion of representation histories of the abnormal informed by histories of disease conditions and its representations, with the aim of developing ways of thinking and talking about concepts of corporeal difference that are socio-culturally and socio-historically located away from the western context and to explore the intersections between gender, caste, religion, sexuality, class and disability.
Edited by:
Someshwar Sati
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic India
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 135mm,
ISBN: 9789356402881
ISBN 10: 9356402884
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 30 March 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction -Someshwar Sati The Polemics of Intentional Evasion: Disability and the Non-Disabled Imaginary- Someshwar Sati Clinical Rescripts: Recovering the Affective Politics of Medicalizing Women’s Bodies - Shilpaa Anand Self-concept, Embodiment, Sexuality and Disability: How Disabled Women Experience Navaratri and Gauri Vrat in Gujarat - Shilpa Das (Re)defining Metaphorical Address: Female Disability, Embodiment and Agency in Jerry Pinto’s Em and the Big Hoom - Smriti Verma Dismembered Bodies in a Disabling Culture: Gendered Perception of Disability in Indian Myths - Tayyaba Rizwan Overlapping Discourses of Monstrosity and Disability in India: Decoding Aryan- Dravidian Narratives in Ramayana and its contemporary iteration in Amish Tripathi’s Shiva Trilogy - MalvikaJayakumar Disability, Discourse and Metaphor - Karuna Rajeev Blind Lives Matter: Metaphor and Materiality in Dharamvir Bharati’s Andha Yug - Deepak Kumar Gupta Disability, Textuality and the Hermeneutics of Distance in Andhadhun - Sanket Sakar Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Disability Gaze: Lights, Camera and Sound! in Black and Guzaarish - Priyam Sinha ‘Bezubaan’ or ‘Humzubaan’: Problematizing Deaf Identities through a Select Few Hindi Films - Mansi Grover From Cure to Healing: Comprehending Deafness through Madan Vasishta’s Deaf in Delhi - Rimjhim Bhattacherjee Crossing Cultures in Storying Depression: Shadows in the Sun as Intersection and Dialogue between Disability Studies and Medical Humanities - Kaustabh Kashyap, Dr Rakhee Kalita Moral
Someshwar Sati is Associate Professor of English at Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, India. He has been singularly responsible for the creation of multiple disability studies courses in the university and the conduction of multiple disability-centric programmes. He is currently the chairperson of the Indian Disability Studies Collective. He is also the recipient of the 2016 C.D. Narasimhaiah Prize.
