Disability, Illness and Cultural Belonging in Akhil Sharma’s Family Life

The aim of this article is to demonstrate how the discourses of disability/illness and immigration are intertwined in Akhil Sharma’s novel Family Life (2014). I argue that the characters’ negotiation of cultural identities occurs at the intersection of their race, ethnicity, class, and immigrant and...

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Main Author: Iwona Filipczak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN) 2020-06-01
Series:Atlantis
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Online Access:https://www.atlantisjournal.org/index.php/atlantis/article/view/668