A different way of talking about disability. The narrative ethics of disability in John Maxwell Coetzee’s novels Cover Image
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O niepełnosprawności inaczej. Narracyjna etyka niepełnosprawności w powieściach Johna Maxwella Coetzeego
A different way of talking about disability. The narrative ethics of disability in John Maxwell Coetzee’s novels

Author(s): Paweł Wojtas
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Sociology, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: disability; narrative ethics; John Maxwell Coetzee; culture of speed; dismodernism; normativism; handicapism; narrative prosthesis; aesthetic neurosis
Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to present the works of John Maxwell Coetzee from the perspective of disability studies. By conducting a cross-sectional analysis of selected novels from the early and late period of the Nobel Prize laureate’s works, the author tries to show how the ethical and narrative aspects of Coetzee’s novels contribute to challenging the normative models of portraying disability, consistently reproduced in traditional literary works and cultural discourses.

  • Page Range: 240-270
  • Page Count: 31
  • Publication Year: 2020
  • Language: Polish