Defying Limits: A Study of Disability and Resilience in Preeti Monga's Novels The Other Senses and Flight Without Sight

Malavika M P

V Tamil Selvi

Research Scholar, Department of English, PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Bharatiar University, Coimbatore

Assistant Professor and Head, Department of English, PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Bharatiar University, Coimbatore

Abstract: Disability studies is an interdisciplinary field of studies based on the grounds of humanities and social sciences rather than viewing disability through the prism of medicine or psychology. It is an academic discipline that surfaced in the late 20th century, emanating from the disability rights movement and critical theory. This paper tries to examine Preeti Monga’s novels, The Other Senses: An Inspiring True Story of a Visually Impaired and Flight Without Sight, considering disability studies, marginalization, and oppression that disable the experience of people in private and public lives.

Keywords: Blind, Disability, Inequality, Injustice, Marginalisation.

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