Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction of J. M. CoetzeePaweł WojtasLabel: Edinburgh University PressDescription: This study offers a detailed analysis of the fiction of J. M. Coetzee including the novels of the South African and Australian periods to demonstrate the development of Coetzee's engagement with the complexities of non-normative embodiment. In this illuminating monograph Pawe? Wojtas demonstrates the extent to which Coetzee's multifaceted depictions of disability offer a sustained critique of the ableist implications of political violence and neoliberal inclusionism alike. Exploring a wide range of notions such as ocularnormativism mute speech eco-disability disability Gothic dismodernism autogerontography and bibliotherapy Wojtas shows how Coetzee's 'disabled textuality' provokes a sustained meditation on various forms of cultural denigration of disability experience.
