Disabled characters
Articles
- Disability in Three Australian Gothic Novels: The Well, Sing Fox to Me and Lilian’s Story
The Gothic lends itself to critical examinations of disabled embodiment yet this genre has ‘hitherto been largely ignored’ by disability studies scholars (Gregory 291). This…
23 May 2022 - Who Gets to Survive the Apocalypse? Disability Hierarchy in Post-Disaster Fiction in Australian YA
Australia has produced many post-disaster novels since the 1980s, our landscape and sense of global isolation inspiring long lists of environmental and political crises. While…
23 May 2022 - Losing Sight of Billy: Moving Beyond the Specular in Haxby’s Circus
Katharine Susannah Prichard’s Haxby’s Circus: the Lightest Brightest Little Show on Earth (1930) chronicles the life of Gina Haxby as she travels with a circus…
23 May 2022 - ‘Taking a Risk’: Disability, Prejudice and Advocacy in the Editing and Publishing History of Ruth Park’s Swords and Crowns and Rings
Ruth Park’s award-winning novel, Swords and Crowns and Rings had a fascinating, and so far largely unknown, journey to publication. This article traces the editorial…
23 May 2022