Spatial Experience of Outsideness and Insideness of Disabled Characters in All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr and The Silence Between Us by Alison Gervais

Abstract

 Disabled people are often spatially excluded and feels the sense of detachment in the place due to their disability. The present research attempts to answer the questions of the spatial experience of the disabled protagonists in All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr and The Silence Between Us by Alison Gervais. The present study, through a textual analysis of Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See and Alison Gervais’s The Silence Between Us, explores the spatial experience of Disabled people. The spectrum of analysis includes but is not limited to theories of disability, Spatiality, and Sensuous Geography and literature. They also incorporate the theoretical underpinnings of Edward Casey Relph’s theory of the experience of spatiality employed to understand the disabled experience of space and place. The present study concludes that disabled people spatially experience of Outsideness due to their disability