1. The Desiring Subject Vs. the Object of Desire in Indra Sinha's Animal's People (2007).
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Filipczak, Iwona
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DESIRE in literature , *DISABILITIES in literature - Abstract
The goal of this paper is to read Indra Sinha's Animal's People through the lens of disability theories to expose the entanglement of disability, sexuality, and humanness. Only by taking into account these three interlocking spheres are we able to acknowledge fully Sinha's nuanced and fair representation of disability in the novel. The narrative makes the connection between disability and sexuality explicit exposing the reality of the protagonist with disability as a desiring subject who grapples with the question whether he can be an object of desire. The intersection of animality and disability is also addressed through the investigation of the negative impact of ableism on the perception of humanness and its consequences for the realization of human sexual needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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