Literary Representations of People with Disabilities in Selected Nigerian Prose-works

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Firdaws Oyebisi P-Ibrahim

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People with disabilities, Literary sociological approach, Nigerian cultures

Abstract

This paper examined the representations and empowerment of characters with disabilities in selected Nigerian prose-works. The study which is descriptive, adopts the literary sociological approach to the analyses of the selected texts.Findings showed that the major characters in the texts are used as representatives of physical and psychological forms of disabilities.

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