Potrayal of Disable Characters in English Literature – A Study of Disability Literature

Vol-4 | Issue-03 | March 2019 | Published Online: 13 March 2019    PDF ( 151 KB )
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2619428
Author(s)
Dr Shafia Saleem 1; Mr Muzafar Ahmad Pandit 2

1Assistant Professor in English Govt. PG College Rajouri, Jammu (India)

2Research Scholar in English, SSSUTMS Sehore, Madhya Pradesh (India)

Abstract

Societal frames of mind towards people with disability have changed from time to time. Various factors add to these evolving dispositions. Gender, training, religion, occupation, income, nationality, significantly affects the dimension of inability cognizance. Portrayal of disabled characters have dependably been found in Writing, regardless of whether oral or composed. Alongside typical characters they attempt to make spaces of their own in stories. Be that as it may, the anecdotal space or position concurred to such characters is never equivalent to that of other standard characters. They are displayed contradictorily or as subsidiaries to the typical characters making due at the outskirts of the universe of the normals. This paper investigates the distinctive parts of portrayal of disability in writing. The methodology is interdisciplinary as it goes for acclimatizing the mental and sociological viewpoints in breaking down the fiction of disable characters. The present research paper will examine the dimension of cognizance of various sorts of individuals towards disability in the selected Indian English fiction which manages the topic of inability to comprehend the different psychological and sociological rationalizations that happen in the life of an individual with some sort of incapacity.

Keywords
Gender, Disabled, Anecdotal, Psychological, Rationalizations.
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