CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Aesthetic Nervousness

2. A Typology of Disability Representation

3. Samuel Beckett: Disability as Hermeneutical Impasse

4. Toni Morrison: Disability, Ambiguity, and Perspectival Modulations

5. Wole Soyinka: Disability, Maimed Rites, and the Systemic Uncanny

6. J. M. Coetzee: Speech, Silence, Autism, and Dialogism

7. The Repeating Island: Race, Difference, Disability, and the Heterogeneities of Robben Island’s History

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index