Reading in the dark - Journal of Literary Disability to go online in late May
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Journal of Literary Disability to go online in late May
Kes: The ability to tell personal stories based on real experience rather than the pre-scripted stories about disability that play in Hollywood movies and on television is one of the most promising modes of advocating, which is why I think the new literature and poetry venues for writing about disability are so promising.
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Journal of Literary Disability
Disability and/as Poetry
Edited by Jim Ferris and David Bolt
The first issue of JLD will be freely available online from May 26, 2007.
http://www.journalofliterarydisability.com
The Journal of Literary Disability will be launched in the U.K. at the Inaugural Conference of the Cultural Disability Studies Research
Network, Liverpool John Moores University, May 26-27, 2007. The first issue will consist of the following articles:
Introduction
David Bolt
Disability Haunting in American Poetics
Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell
Icarus, Gods, and the 'Lesson' of Disability
Nicole Markotić
Outsides: Disability Culture Nature Poetry
Petra Kuppers
Les Poses de l'Incompris reprises: Corbière, Caricature, and Critical Illness
Tammy Berberi
Josephine Miles's Crip(t) Words: Gender, Disability, "Doll"
Sue Schweik
The Poetry of Dementia: Art, Ethics, and Alzheimer's disease in Tony
Harrison's Black Daisies for the Bride
Lucy Burke
Auto-Graphein or 'The Blind Man's Pencil': Notes on the Making of a Poem
Stephen Kuusisto and Petra Kuppers
Against Rhythm: Poetry in Uncommon Time
Jim Ferris
Current Location: aerye
Tags: disability, poetry, writing
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