Disabling States of Surveillance: R. D. Laing’s The Divided Self (1960) and James Kelman’s How Late It Was, How Late (1994)
IntroductionWhen the protagonist-narrator in James Kelman’s How Late It Was, How Late (1994) loses his sight after being beaten to unconsciousness by plain-clothes police officers, the reader experiences the interior world of Sammy Samuels as he is confronted by disabling mechanisms of state admini...
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Études écossaises
2024
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| Yhteenveto: | IntroductionWhen the protagonist-narrator in James Kelman’s How Late It Was, How Late (1994) loses his sight after being beaten to unconsciousness by plain-clothes police officers, the reader experiences the interior world of Sammy Samuels as he is confronted by disabling mechanisms of state administration in his attempts to adjust to and account for the immediate change in his sensory perceptions. Since at least the 1970s, the normalised vocabulary of disability has been recognised as insti... |
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