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VOL. 7, ISSUE 6 (2021)
Disability studies: Re-reading Waiting for The Barbarians
Authors
Manohar Sanmukhdas Vaswani
Abstract
Disability Studies endeavors to formulate a social analysis of experience of disability. The inter-disciplinary approaches to the field of disability studies can offer new perspectives to existing disciplines such as the study of English literature. This approach can be applied to literary works and a new interpretation of these works be arrived at in the light of Disability Studies. J M Coetzee’s Waiting for The Barbarians is generally studied from a Postcolonial perspective. The novel is also read as an allegorical depiction of depravity of man. The Magistrate is the central character and narrator of the novel. We see everything from his perspective. But if the novel is read from the perspective of Disability Studies, The Blind barbarian girl should be the focus of study. The disability of the girl is overlooked in interpreting the story of the novel from various perspectives. Reading the novel from the perspective of disability studies can help to reveal new insights in the novel.
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Pages:4-5
How to cite this article:
Manohar Sanmukhdas Vaswani "Disability studies: Re-reading <em>Waiting for The Barbarians</em> ". International Journal of English Research, Vol 7, Issue 6, 2021, Pages 4-5
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