White men represent power in white supremacist patriarchy. What happens when literary texts depict them as disabled? Embodying more than just crises of masculin

White men represent power in white supremacist patriarchy. What happens when literary texts depict them as disabled? Embodying more than just crises of masculin

Focusing on Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee as authors, critics and Nobel Prize-winning intellectuals, this book explores shifting representations of disability

Reveals the links, both positive and negative, between disabled bodies and aspects of modernism and modernity through readings of a wide range of literary texts

Grete Meisel-Hess (1879-1922), a contemporary of Freud, Schnitzler, and Klimt, was a feminist voice in early-twentieth-century modernist discourse. Born in Prag