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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Ramps and the Stair
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'I've been wanting to write about non-normative body and an elusive word has been stalling me. What is it to be - distopic'? 'Dystrophic' ? 'distropic'? distopia is a place - a society - or condition 'in which everything is as bad as possible (OED). Dystrophia refers to defective Nourishment (OED: dystrophic is a term reserved for lakes particularly laden with dissolved organic matter). The dystrophy in 'muscular dystrophy' refers more to atrophy than what my mind insists to me 'dystrophy' should refer to. But what is that?...' (Introduction)

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  • Writing Disability in Australia:

    Type of disability Various - Marfan syndrome, malfunctioning leg, osteoarthritis.
    Type of character Primary.
    Point of view First person.

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    y separately published work icon Southerly Writing Disability vol. 76 no. 2 Andy Jackson (editor), David Brooks (editor), 2017 10817268 2017 periodical issue

    'This intriguing issue presents essays, memoir and creative work by disabled and non-disabled writers on the subjects of disability and of the interrelation of writing and disability.

    'Blind writer and critic Amanda Tink discusses the impact of Henry Lawson’s deafness on his style and created world. Ben Stubbs walks the streets of Adelaide blindfolded to learn more of the sightless city. Deaf author Jessica White discusses the deafness of Maud Praed. Josephine Taylor writes an incisive essay on Vulvodynia. There are discussions of visible and invisible disabilities, of the poetics of disability, of disability and silence, of little known or largely unrecognised disabilities, and of the difficulties confronting discussion of disability in the first place. There is also Southerly’s usual feast of reviews and recent Australian and New Zealand writing, including striking new works by Anthony Mannix, Elizabeth Holdsworth, Peter Boyle, Koraly Dimitriadis and many others.' (Publication summary)

    2017
    pg. 12-29
Last amended 3 Apr 2018 11:56:19
12-29 Ramps and the Stairsmall AustLit logo Southerly
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