Gebundenes Buch

Understanding Disability

Interdisciplinary Critical Approaches

Herausgegeben: Uniyal, Ranu; Rizvi, Fatima

Beschreibung

This edited volume brings together contributions on disability studies organized around two themes: literary and sociological aspects. The contributors include academics, disability activists, and researchers from within and outside the Indian periphery. While the book strengthens the disability discourse and contributes to building academic scholarship on this subject, it also promotes disability activism by giving space to both direct practitioners and persons with disabilities. The chapters discuss various analytical and literary aspects of the marginalization experienced by the disabled community and bring forth new and elaborate perspectives. It draws connections across multiple identities and includes personal narratives across nations, cultures and societies. It is an excellent research resource on disability studies in India for scholars and students in the area of humanities, education, law, sociology and social work, while at the same time also addressing the globalcontext.

Autor

Ranu Uniyal is a bilingual poet.  She is Professor and Head Department of English, University of Lucknow. She has written four books of poetry-  Across the Divide (2006), December Poems (2012), The Day We Went Strawberry Picking In Scarborough (2018) and Saeeda Ke Ghar (Hindi poems 2021).  She was a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Hull, United Kingdom. Her areas of interest are women and literature, post colonial studies and disability studies. She has published extensively in India and abroad. Her major publications include: Women and Landscape: The Fiction of Margaret Drabble and Anita Desai (2000), Women in Indian Writing: From Difference to Diversity (2009), coedited Raja Rao's Kanthapura (2007), Reading Gandhi: Perspectives in the 21st Century"(2022), and "Mahatma Gandhi: Essays on Life and Literature " (2023). She coedited a Special issue onSouth Asian Women's Writing ZAA quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture, 2018.  She also works for people with special needs in Lucknow (PYSSUM.org). Fatima Rizvi is Professor in the Department of English and Modern European languages, University of Lucknow. Her areas of academic interest include colonial and postcolonial studies, translation studies, and Urdu studies. Her research papers have been published in journals of national and international repute and in anthologies of criticism. She translates Urdu and Hindi. She has published Beyond the stars and Other Stories (2021, Women Unlimited), a translation of Qurratulain Hyder's Sitaron se Aage (1947). She is a Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize and Jawad Memorial Prize awardee.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Nature Singapore / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-981-99-4924-3
• 1st edition 2023
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 588g
• ISBN-13: 9789819949243
• ISBN-10: 9819949246
• Artikelnr.: 68297367

Rezensionen

This book is an exploration of a potentially emerging area of disability studies. Each part locates the disabled experience in a distinct field of theory and practice, arts and culture, and social and political interventions. Most importantly, though registering the traumas of disability faced by people in real life, the book retains an optimistic approach forcing, suggesting, and manifesting the positive changes in accommodating the interests of disabled people in society, culture, institutions, infrastructure, mindsets, and popular imagination. (Raj Gaurav Verma, Asiatic, Vol. 18 (1), June, 2024)

The book takes a deep dive into the topic of disability ... . The book also sheds light on how Disability Studies has become an emerging academic field . I found the book to be well-organised and easy to comprehend, even though it covers some complex and medical aspects of disability. ... On the bright side, the book is available in a digital format that enables readers to keep track of any essay updates. (Nikita Yadav, Rhetorica - A Literary Journal of Arts, Vol. 4 (1), 2024)