During my PhD Coursework I had participated All India English Teachers' Conference on " Globalization: Emerging Trends in English Language and Literature" at Osmania University, Hyderabad ( INDIA) during 18-20 Jan, 2018. I had presented my research paper on Jan 20, 2018 in the session before Dr. B Krishnaiya sir from University of Hyderabad.

1. Disability and Global Perspectives: The
Vision and Voice of the Disabled in
Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh and
Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day
By Aahuti Dhandhukia
Asst Prof (English), Govt. Engg College, Bhavnagar
Research Scholar, (Ph.D), MK Bhavnagar University
( India)

2. Research Relevance
• Inclusive Society for Better world
• Disabled People’s lives of Marginalization
• Disability Studies as emerging Discipline
• Disability Studies in Literature explores
human experience of pain and anguish.
• Un’s Millennium Development Goals for
Disability Inclusive post-2015 Development
and India’s Rights of Persons with
Disability Act, 2016

3. What is Disability?
• Physical, mental, intellectual, sensory impairment
• According to World Health Organization
• Impairment-problem in body function
• Activity Limitation- difficulty in doing task
• Participation Restriction-individual experience in life
environment

4. Models to Study Disability
• Religious-Cultural Model
• Medical Model
• Social Model
• Need for interdisciplinary approach with the theory of
body, pain and suffering
( Shakespeare Tom)

5. Socio-Cultural Perspective
• Impaired by body – disabled by society
• Ambiguous attitude and prejudiced perspectives of the
society –Plato to the present
• Absolute state of otherness-opposed to normal ( MLA)
• Society reinforces discrimination and isolation.

6. Not through the narratives on
law, sociology, economics but
through Literature people
learn more about Disability.
Disability approach in literature
considers them as complex
characters living life in different
and distinct way ( Alice Hall)

7. Disability and Globalization
• intensification of consciousness in disability
• Fundamental human experience missing from our critical
consciousness
• Universalization and particularism in disability
• Uncertainty of disability at any time
• Inclusion/ Participation in Welfare State

8. The Moor’s Last Sigh
• Physical Disability of Progeria, asthama and deformed
right hand- Stigma, Shame
• Disability with displacement, disfiguration
• Psychological anguish-life of Double Quick
• Exploitation and betrayal in relationship
• Disability- burden of sin
• Life of nothingness and worthlessness

9. Clear Light of Day
• Baba’s Multiple Disabilities of Intellectual Disability,
Autism Spectrum Disorder, Albinism
• Silence and smile
• Parental neglect, Lifelong Responsibility for Bim
• Striving for independence becomes ‘collapse’.

10. Disables are Human first.
“ We are NOT Metaphors.”
Disability is Not a Device. .

11. Physical and Intellectual
Disability
• Moor
• Speed of Physical growth
• Self Evident
• First person narrative brings
out pain and Hurt.
• Baba
• Slowness of Intellectual
Development
• Perceived by Family and
Society
• Third person narrative and
stream of consciousness do
not enter Baba’s mind.