Disabled writers
Articles
- Writing Disability in Australia: Transmedial Potentials for Illness/Recovery Narratives
In this paper I argue that extending the illness/recovery narrative through the transmedial mode allows for more diverse representation from patients and survivors, leading to…
23 May 2022 - Historical Figures, Archives and Australian Disability Life Writing: Reading Jessica White’s Hearing Maud and Writing Hysteria
Through examining Jessica White’s hybrid memoir Hearing Maud and my own work Hysteria: A Memoir of Illness, Strength and Women’s Stories Throughout History, I…
23 May 2022 - ‘Doomed shapely ersatz thought’: Francis Webb, Ward Two and the Language of Schizophrenia
Francis Webb’s Ward Two is based on Webb’s hospitalisation for schizophrenia in Paramatta in the 1960s, and was the first Australian poetic sequence concerned with…
23 May 2022 - ‘A Message to Humanity on Behalf of the Adult Deaf’: The Protest Writing of John Patrick Bourke
Our knowledge of the deafness of major figures in Australian literature such as Henry Lawson, remains obscure. Other writers who have revealed deafness may not…
23 May 2022 - ‘Nearly all deep fertile soil’: Les Murray, His Son and Autism
‘It Allows a Portrait in Line Scan at Fifteen’ is one of Les Murray’s most well-known poems. It was written in 1993, first published in…
23 May 2022