Disabled movement beyond metaphor in Michael Ondaatje's The Cat's Table and Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea

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ID2179381
AuthorsLuke Brown (0000-0003-3056-4563)
Year2021
Volume57
Issue1
Pages60-74
Publication date2021-01-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449855.2020.1781682
OpenAlexW3039740338
LanguageEN
References cited30

This article offers a brief analysis of disability in relation to the Indian Ocean littoral, particularly in narratives related to migration and travel. It delineates a disciplinary gap between disability studies and Indian Ocean studies and foregrounds a series of close readings regarding the deployment of disability – a discourse worthy of inquiry beyond its use as a metaphor for postcolonial experience – in two key works of recent Indian Ocean literature: The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje and By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah. This article challenges the epistemic whiteness of disability studies and calls for new approaches to disability informed by Indian Ocean studies. It resituates disability as a site of colonial subjugation, containment and resistance – one that best serves the disabled pretender – by going beyond the Atlantic context of most disability studies scholarship

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