Critique of Normalcy in Indra Sinha's Animal's People

Abstract

This research taking the insight from disability studies, examines how Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People subverts the idea of normalcy and disability. This research analyses why Sinha gives a normal human attributes to the disabled narrator in the novel. Endowing the protagonist, Animal, with normal human characteristics, sexual, economic and social agency and making him as competent as normal human being Animal’s People subverts the traditional concept of disability and normalcy. Disability is rather a social construction. Negation of disabled social participation and stereotypical representation of disability marginalizes the disabled. However, social acceptance of disabled as the normal human being and positive representation of them helps to erase the fallacy of disability.