A must read book on disability
The book, The Discourse of Disability: Indian Perspectives authored by Dr. Vivek Singh, Assistant Professor of English, Banaras Hindu University explores the concept of disability through a social, political, cultural, religious and economic lens. It challenges the categorization of “physically disabled” produced by way of legal, medical, political, cultural and literary narratives that comprise an exclusionary discourse.
The volume discusses themes like disability and identity politics; disability the Western epistemology; disability in India; disability and Indian English fiction and Hindi cinema to question the embodied hegemony of “norms” and their effects on the construction and history of societies. It analyses select literary and cinematic texts like Trying to Grow, Fireproof and Animal’s People as well as the movies Black and Lafangey Parindey to critically examine the representation of disabled people as freak, monstrous, and animal. The book also makes policy recommendations for inclusive education and work norms for disabled people.
This book will be beneficial for scholars and researchers of disability studies, cultural studies, film studies, and English literature.
Dr. Vivek Singh is Assistant Professor of English at Banaras Hindu University, India. He pursued his PhD from the University of English and Foreign Languages, India. To pursue his research, he went to Potsdam University, Berlin and received DAAD fellowship. He has delivered more than 15 lectures in various reputed institutions and has published ten papers in International Journals. His edited works include The Crisis in Humanity (2022) and others. Currently, he works as a Language Instructor and Cultural Ambassador at Mississippi Valley State University, USA.
