Elusive Kinship - Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature

"This volume analyzes the figure and representation of disability in postcolonial literature, unpacking how depictions of disability both reflected and directly impacted the growth of disability human rights in the latter half of the twentieth century"--

About the author

Christopher Krentz is an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia with a joint appointment between the English Department and American Sign Language Program. He is the author of Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and editor of A Mighty Change: An Anthology of Deaf American Writing, 1816–1864, as well as numerous articles about disability in literature and culture. He is currently director of the University of Virginia’s Disability Studies Initiative and helped found their American Sign Language Program.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Krentz
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Temple Univ Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781439922217
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-2221-7
• No. of pages: 203
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 435 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology