Add to ORKGThe pressure for commercially published memoirs to offer a tragedy-to-triumph redemptive arc is exacerbated when the memoir is about disability. I explore how I attempted to contest this narrative arc, using a thematic rather than chronological approach and adopting the personal essay form. I also unpack the role of metaphor in representing a disability such as autism and the complexities of writing from a socio-cultural (rather than symbolic or medical) paradigm of disability. I examine one of the key dilemmas of writing a relational memoir and the creative judgements that the author must make
This paper examines the ways in which the disability memoir creates pathways that generate new ways ...
Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2018In the process of writing this memoir, I engaged wi...
Stories live to be told to others, Dan McAdams (2008) writes: Life stories therefore are continually...
This paper examines disability memoirs, and the author\u27s responsibility to their community versus...
This article examines two exemplar texts, both memoirs written by mothers about their sons, and disc...
Produced by Hawai'i University Affiliated Program on Disabilities, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, H...
Autoethnographic stories about illness and disability are usually written for, and with, readers in ...
When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience b...
The ‘memoir problem’ revisited “That you had parents and a childhood does not of itself qualify you...
We live in the Golden Age of the memoir. Everyone has a story to tell, and a growing number are find...
Writing a better story : authorizing a vivid and valid self -- Lauren Slater's Prozac diary : the me...
The memoir The Other Country and the essay Inspiration is Power examine i) contemporary experiences ...
This project examines how personal storytelling can be used to illuminate and further develop unders...
This article analyses themes from Christina Crosby’s disability memoir A Body, Undone: Living On aft...
This interdisciplinary article draws on the social sciences to posit a tripartite model from which l...
This paper examines the ways in which the disability memoir creates pathways that generate new ways ...
Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2018In the process of writing this memoir, I engaged wi...
Stories live to be told to others, Dan McAdams (2008) writes: Life stories therefore are continually...
This paper examines disability memoirs, and the author\u27s responsibility to their community versus...
This article examines two exemplar texts, both memoirs written by mothers about their sons, and disc...
Produced by Hawai'i University Affiliated Program on Disabilities, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, H...
Autoethnographic stories about illness and disability are usually written for, and with, readers in ...
When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience b...
The ‘memoir problem’ revisited “That you had parents and a childhood does not of itself qualify you...
We live in the Golden Age of the memoir. Everyone has a story to tell, and a growing number are find...
Writing a better story : authorizing a vivid and valid self -- Lauren Slater's Prozac diary : the me...
The memoir The Other Country and the essay Inspiration is Power examine i) contemporary experiences ...
This project examines how personal storytelling can be used to illuminate and further develop unders...
This article analyses themes from Christina Crosby’s disability memoir A Body, Undone: Living On aft...
This interdisciplinary article draws on the social sciences to posit a tripartite model from which l...
This paper examines the ways in which the disability memoir creates pathways that generate new ways ...
Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2018In the process of writing this memoir, I engaged wi...
Stories live to be told to others, Dan McAdams (2008) writes: Life stories therefore are continually...