Thursday, July 24, 2008

ANNOUNCEMENT: Bibliography of Disability in Asia, Middle East, and Africa

A new bibliography is now hosted in the library of the Independent Living Institute: "Glimpses of Disability in the Literature & Cultures of East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East & Africa. A modern and historical bibliography, briefly annotated.

http://www.independentliving.org/docs7/miles200807.pdf

This bibliography lists and annotates 130 novels, short stories, biographies, literary criticism, and a few materials from philosophy, anthropology and folklore, in which disability, deafness or mental disorders play a significant part, in East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and Africa, available mostly in English or French.