DIS ST 430: Disability in World Literature

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DIS ST/LSJ/CHID 430: Disability in World Literature
T, Th 10-11:50

This course explores the human experience of disability as represented in novels and stories from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. What strategies do authors deploy to contain, complicate and challenge cultural preconceptions of the disabled body? How does disability intersect with other major identity categories, such as sexuality, nationality and race? Relying on the work of literary critics as well as Disability Studies scholars, we will examine how disability signifies through the written word. Authors include Leo Tolstoy, Salman Rushdie, Katherine Dunn and Alina Bronsky. All readings in English.