Engl 1012: Writing Body-Minds Disability & Memoir
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Wong is the founder of the Disability Visibility project, and her work focuses on making the voices of disabled people heard.
Excerpts of her memoir will be distributed in class. I’ll have larger-font accessible copies available, but please let me know if you need a digital rather than a print copy.
To get to know Wong better, here’s an NPR interview on her memoir.
Listen to a Cross Currents radio interview.
Eli Clare is a writer, poet, activist and teacher whose work thinks about the intersections of disability, class, gender, race and environmental justice.
The chapter we’re reading will be distributed in class. I’ll have a few larger-font accessibility versions ready, but if you need a digital copy instead of a printed one, let me know at [email protected].
For more information on Clare, visit his website.
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was a poet, novelist and short story writer, known for The Bell Jar and her confessional style of poetry. She died by suicide in 1963, after a long history of mental illness.
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) was a Victorian intellectual, who was deaf from childhood and an invalid for six years. In her memoir, addressed to other invalids, Martineau emphasizes the sick room as a space of reprieve from the stresses of daily life. How does she invite us to think about an experience of chronic illness in new ways, as it relates to time, imagination, gender, and power?
Read Life in the Sickroom: Essays by an Invalid
Listen to Life in the Sickroom: Essays by an Invalid
After reading Virginia Woolf’s essay “On Being Ill,” I would then like you to post a 200 word response. Choose one quotation from the reading that you find interesting, surprising or confusing. Please include the quotation at the top of your response. Why did this quotation grab your attention? What questions does it provoke for you? This due by classt ime, Thursday at 11.00am. Please post your response as a reply to this post.
Ellen Samuels writes of how disability impacts the experience of time; as a form of loss, alienation and liberation. Published in Disability Studies Quarterly, Summer 2017.
Learn about the different models of disability here. How does the social model shift the way society thinks about disability? Explore the Ted Talks, websites and resources in the module below.
