• Jamuna

Disability Studies has emerged as a significant field of study in the late twentieth century, primarily, in The U.S, The U.K, and Canada. This field of study examines the social, cultural, and environmental nature of disability, and projects it as an interdisciplinary academic terrain that focuses on the contributions, experiences, history and culture of people with disabilities. Blindness is usually identified as one of the most widespread and frequently encountered disability in literary genres, and in literature, blindness has been represented as a topic through the ages. In the West, many analytical studies have emerged in relation to blindness as linked to the field of Disability Studies. Among them David Bolt’s The Metanarrative of Blindness: A Re-Reading of Twentieth Century Anglophone Writing, and Alice Hall’s Disability and Literature are prominent critical texts. David Bolt explores different forms of impairment and he tries to show the diversity and ambiguity of the term ‘disability’. Alice Hall in her book tries to explore formal and theoretical questions about disability and its representation in literature and culture. Not much attention has been given to representations of disability in Indian Literatures .There is a lack of analytical writing and literary criticism on the depiction of blindness in Indian Literatures. In short, Disability Studies has emerged as a current field of enquiry within literature, and in the West many studies have already emanated on the representations of disability in literature.

Blindness, impairment, depiction, representation, metaphor, blind love.

"“Blindness as Metaphor in Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel”.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 11, page no.b761-b766, November-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2111194.pdf

"“Blindness as Metaphor in Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel”.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 11, page no. ppb761-b766, November-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2111194.pdf