Current Search: Criticism and interpretation (x) » Nepal (x)
-
-
Title
-
Gender, disability, and literature in the Global South: Nepali writers Jhamak Ghimire and Bishnu Kumari Waiwa (Parijat).
-
Creator
-
Acharya, Tulasi., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
-
Abstract/Description
-
This thesis explores gender, disability and literature in the Global South through an examination of the writings of two physically disabled contemporary women writers from Nepal, BIshnu Kumari Waiwa and Jhamak Ghimire. I show how these renowned contemporary writers challenge stigmas of the disabled body by deconstructiong the "ideology of ability" through their poetry, fiction, and autobiographical narratives. Religious and cultural values disable women's autonomy in general, and create even...
Show moreThis thesis explores gender, disability and literature in the Global South through an examination of the writings of two physically disabled contemporary women writers from Nepal, BIshnu Kumari Waiwa and Jhamak Ghimire. I show how these renowned contemporary writers challenge stigmas of the disabled body by deconstructiong the "ideology of ability" through their poetry, fiction, and autobiographical narratives. Religious and cultural values disable women's autonomy in general, and create even greater disadvantages for women who are physically disabled. Challenging these cultural stigmas, Waiwa and Ghimire celebrate 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.
Show less
-
Date Issued
-
2012
-
PURL
-
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3356903
-
Subject Headings
-
Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Prejudices in literature, Discrimination against people with disabilities, Stigma (Social psychology), Women in literature, Social conditions
-
Format
-
Document (PDF)