Understanding Disability: Interdisciplinary Critical Approaches

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Editors and Contributors
Introduction
Part I Disability and Empirical Experiences
1 I Can Hear Her Breathing: Disabled Writers Writing Disability
	References
2 Pilot Research Study: Utilizing the EMDR Integrative Group Treatment Protocol Online to Help Parents with the Stresses of Having a Special Needs Child
	Overview Special Needs Children: Research of PTSD and Treatment
	Parents of Special Needs Children
		Status of Support
	EMDR
	Current Study: The Purposes of This Study
	Method
	Participants
	Assessment Tools
	EMDR Treatment Provision
	Results
	Discussion
	Limitations and Questions for Further Study
	Conclusion
	References
3 Social Role Valorization Theory in India: An Idea with Consequences
	What Is Social Role Valorization?
	Historical Roots and Impact of SRV
	Establishing the Foundation: SRV Teaching Across India
	A Platform for SRV Leaders
	SRV in Practice
		Case Studies
	Future Directions
	Conclusion
	References
4 Hold Your Breath: Promoting Health for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
	Introduction
	Understanding the Phrase “Hold Your Breath”
	Breath and Disability
	Breath: Possibilities of Reducing the Impact
	Breath: A Foundation of Healthy Body and Healthy Mind
	BREATH: A Practical and Scientific Application
	Prayer—An Activity for a Positive Impact
	Chanting—The Joy That Brings a Positive Change
	Breathing Exercises—A Process with an Impact on the Mind
	The Double Breathing—The Foundation of Mental Health
	The Impact of Double Breathing
	Watching the Breath—A Science, Not a Belief
	Scientific Observations
	References
Part II Disability in Literature, Film and Theatre
5 The Mad Mother in the 1BHK—Hallowing and Harrowing Positions in Jerry Pinto’s Em and the Big Hoom
	Bibliography
6 (No) Shared Towers: Performing the Bipolar in Em and the Big Hoom
	Life and Theatre: The World Is a Messy Stage
	Madness and Culture: Who’s Stage Is It Anyway?
	Language and Mental Illness: No Escape from the Madd(en)ing Crowd
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
7 Disability, Sexuality, and Postcoloniality in Bengali Fiction
	Introduction
	Disability and Embodiment
	Disability and Emasculation
	Disability and Violence
	Disability, Sexuality, and Subjectivity
	Disability and Ethnicity
	Corporeal and Spectral Bodies
	Disability and Postcolonial Difference
	References
8 Stigmatizing the Other: Treatment of Disability in Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”
	Introduction
	The Discredited and the Discreditable Subject
	Disability: A Performance of Discourse
	Stigma: Actual Social Identity Versus Virtual Social Identity
	Stigma and the Dilemma of Difference
	Stigma and the Unstable Body
	Exclusionary Cultural Paradigm and Isolation of the Stigmatized
	Abled and Disabled (Perspectives) Not Types
	Conclusion
	References
9 Notions of Normalcy and Changing Definitions: Defeating Stereotypes and Creating Acceptance of Disability
	Introduction
	Objectives
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
10 Normalizing Disability: Discourses of the Decolonized Body
	References
11 Disabled Identities and the Linguistic World: Exploring Dysfunctionalities in Leela Gour Broome’s Flute in the Forest
	Bibliography
12 From Narrative Prosthesis to Disability Counternarrative: Reading Cognitive Difference in Aparna Sen’s 15 Park Avenue
	Introduction
	Conclusion
	Appendix 1: Notes
	Appendix 2: Filmography
	 Works Cited
13 Changing Social Perspectives on Disability in Hindi Films Dosti and Barfi
	Introduction
	Literature, Film, and Society
	Social Exclusionary Practices Towards Disability
	Indian Perspective on Disability
	Disability and Social Model
	Disability in Literature and Film
		Dosti (1964)
		Barfi (2012)
	Conclusion
	References
14 The Societal Gaze and Stigma: A Study of Mahesh Dattani’s Tara
	References
15 Disability and Gender Interface in Dattani’s Tara
	Notes
	Bibliography
Part III Dealing with Disability
16 People of Determination—Making Achievements, Overcoming Challenges
	Disability Statistics Matter
	Not Disabled, Just Differently Abled
	Ancient India and Disability—Constructing Disabilities Through Narratives of Sacred Texts and Mythologies
	Kingdoms of Ancient and Medieval India and Their Dealings with Disability
	Perspective of the Arab World on Disability
	‘The Determined Ones’—UAE and People of Determination
	National Policy for Empowering People with Special Needs
	The Six Pillars of the National Policy
	The People of Determination Retreat
	Eight Tenets of the Retreat
	Special Olympics World Game
	Caring for People of Determination During COVID-19
	Bibliography
17 Disability and Institutional Failure: A Study of Good Kings, Bad Kings by Susan Nussbaum
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
18 Education and Labour Market for Persons with Disabilities in India
	Introduction
	Labour Market Linkages and Economics of Education
	Disability and Discrimination: Education and Labour Market
	PWDs in India and Labour Market
	Discrimination in the Labour Market for PWDs: Emerging Concerns
	Determinants of Labour Market Outcomes for PWDs in India
	Concluding Remarks
	Bibliography
19 Honk Honk: Women, You Drive Crazy!
	Bibliography
20 Contesting Representation, Writing Self: A Critical Study of Disabled Life Narratives in A Bumblebee’s Balcony and One Little Finger
	Self-representations Versus Societal Representations
	Urban and Rural, East and West in Representations of Disability
		Writing Self
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
21 Shaping the Disability Discourse: From Theoretical Groundwork to Lived Experiences
	Bibliography