Aesthetic nervousness : disability and the crisis of representation / Ato Quayson.

New York : Columbia University Press, [2007], ©2007.

xvi, 246 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-242) and index.

Introduction : aesthetic nervousness -- A typology of disability representation -- Samuel Beckett : disability as hermeneutical impasse -- Toni Morrison : disability, ambiguity, and perspectival modulations -- Wole Soyinka : disability, maimed rites, and the systemic uncanny -- J.M. Coetzee : speech, silence, autism, and dialogism -- The repeating island : race, difference, disability, and the heterogeneities of Robben Island's history.