The new issue of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (JLCDS) is now available. Volume 5: Issue 3 is a special issue on Disability and Life Writing and is guest edited by G. Thomas Couser
Articles:
- Introduction: Disability and Life Writing ~ G. Thomas Couser (Hofstra University)
- On a Scale from 1 to 10: Life Writing and Lyrical Pain ~ Susannah Mintz (Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY)
- Disability and Self Life Writing: Reports from the Nineteenth Century Asylum ~ Sara Newman (Kent State University)
- The Reclamation of Anna Agnew: Violence, Victimhood, and the Uses of Cure ~ Kathleen Brian (George Washington University)
- Disabling Spectacles: Representations of Trig Palin and Cognitive Disability ~ Reed Cooley (George Washington University)
- Plural Singularities: The Disability Community in Life Writing Texts ~ Margaret Torrell (State University of New York, College at Old Westbury)
Comment from the Field:
- Transforming Bodies: Ageing Seminar ~ Emma Sophie Pickering (University of Leeds)
Reviews
- Peter Street, Thumbing from Lipik to Pakrac: New and Selected Poems. ~ James McGrath (Leeds Metropolitan University)
- Jess Thomas, The Seeker. ~ John Withers IV (Belmont Abbey College)
The new issue is available in print and online formats to individuals and institutions who subscribe via Liverpool University Press; it is also part of the Project MUSE collection.
For more information, please contact: Dr. David Bolt: boltd@hope.ac.uk
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