Introduction
On kinship with literary characters: the power of fiction
Between indigenous beliefs and colonial invasion: the vital role of disability
in Achebe's Things fall apart
Extraordinary bodies: magic realism, disability, and Rushdie's Midnight's children
How metaphor can also be realism: disability and rights in Coetzee's fiction
A sense of care: women writing disabled women in the global South
The limits of human rights: twenty-first-century depictions of war, poverty, global capitalism, and disability