The Problematics of Disability: Negotiating History through Self-referential Autistic Memory in Roddy Doyle’s "A Star Called Henry"

In Aesthetic Nervousness (2007) Ato Quayson claims that the “confrontation between the ‘normate’ as the nondisabled and the disabled person creates a tension and causes […] nervousness” (17). To embed the binary of “the disabled and the normate” in the context of the history of Irish wars, especiall...

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Main Author: Shahriyar Mansouri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2021-06-01
Series:Studi Irlandesi : a Journal of Irish Studies
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Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-sijis/article/view/12887