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Gender, Disability, and Literature: Reading the Works of Jhamak Ghimire and Parijat - Softcover

Acharya, Tulasi

 
9781087943343: Gender, Disability, and Literature: Reading the Works of Jhamak Ghimire and Parijat
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1087943345 ISBN 13: 9781087943343
Publisher: IngramSpark, 2023

Synopsis

This book explores gender, disability and literature in the Global South concentrating on Nepal in particular. Religious and cultural values disable women's autonomy in general, and create even greater disadvantages for women who are physically disabled. This study examines two Nepali women writers Bishnu Kumari Waiwa and Jhamak Ghimire who challenge stigmas of the disabled body by deconstructing the "ideology of ability" through their autobiographical narratives. They do this by celebrating sexuality and disability as sources of creativity, agency, and identity in narratives that deconstruct cultural or social models of sexuality, motherhood, and beauty. In this thesis feminist disability and feminist theory guide an analysis of Waiwa and Ghimire's writing to advance our understanding of gender, culture, disability and literature in the Global South.

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Publisher
IngramSpark
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1087943345
ISBN 13 
9781087943343
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
68