Special Issue: Writing Disability in Australia

Introduction: Writing Disability in Australia

Caesura and the Deforming Poem: Rupture as a Space for the Other

Who Gets to Survive the Apocalypse? Disability Hierarchy in Post-Disaster Fiction in Australian YA

Losing Sight of Billy: Moving Beyond the Specular in Haxby’s Circus

Disability in Three Australian Gothic Novels: The Well, Sing Fox to Me and Lilian’s Story

Writing Disability in Australia: Transmedial Potentials for Illness/Recovery Narratives

‘Doomed shapely ersatz thought’: Francis Webb, Ward Two and the Language of Schizophrenia

‘Nearly all deep fertile soil’: Les Murray, His Son and Autism

‘A Message to Humanity on Behalf of the Adult Deaf’: The Protest Writing of John Patrick Bourke

Historical Figures, Archives and Australian Disability Life Writing: Reading Jessica White’s Hearing Maud and Writing Hysteria

‘Taking a Risk’: Disability, Prejudice and Advocacy in the Editing and Publishing History of Ruth Park’s Swords and Crowns and Rings