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GENDER, DISABILITY, AND LITERATURE IBD

MANTRA
03 / 2023
9781087943343

Sinopsis

This book explores gender, disability and literature in the Global South concentrating on Nepal in particular. Religious and cultural values disable womenâÇÖs 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 deconstructácultural or social models of sexuality, motherhood, and beauty.áIn this thesis feminist disability and feminist theory guide an analysis of Waiwa and GhimireâÇÖs writing to advance our understanding of gender, culture, disability and literature in the Global South.