ABSTRACT
This chapter reorients the critical discussion to take a fuller account of the role of disability as an often-problematic signifier for Otherness in modernist fiction. It argues that a disabled individual's subject position is particularly implicated in 'a social temporality that exceeds its own capacities for narration'. It is also important to consider the extent to which disability as a subject position challenges existing modes of understanding of both the self and self-narration. The chapter focuses on two particularly fraught moments of intersubjective misrecognition that demonstrate the complex nature of subject formation for disabled individuals in different ways. The Sun Also Rises and The Sound and the Fury are paradigmatic examples of modernist fiction that presents an attempt to make sense of a world that, for various reasons, no longer provides those living in it with traditionally recognizable narrative reference points.
