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'We stumbled on the cottage one summer, coming upon the sagging timber structure half-hidden amongst a medley of exotic and native foliage. Around the back, taller than the building, a water tank reduced to rusty lacework rested on metal stilts...' (Introduction)

Notes

Epigraph: What we remember of a dream and what we exercise our interpretive arts upon has been mutilated by the untrustworthiness of memory, which seems quite especially incapable of retaining a dream and may well have lost precisely the most important parts of its content - Sigmund Freud.

Affiliation Notes

Writing Disability in Australia:

Type of disability Epilepsy, Turner's syndrome, PTSD, spinal cord injury.

Type of character Primary.

Point of view First person.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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y Southerly Writing Disability vol. 76 no. 2 Andy Jackson (editor), David Brooks (editor), 2017 10817268 2017 periodical issue Abstract
'This intriguing issue presents essays, memoir and creative work by disabled and non-disabled writers on the subjects of disability and of the interrelation of writing and disability.
'Blind writer and critic Amanda Tink discusses the impact of Henry Lawson’s deafness on his style and created world. Ben Stubbs walks the streets of Adelaide blindfolded to learn more of the sightless city. Deaf author Jessica White discusses the deafness of Maud Praed. Josephine Taylor writes an incisive essay on Vulvodynia. There are discussions of visible and invisible disabilities, of the poetics of disability, of disability and silence, of little known or largely unrecognised disabilities, and of the difficulties confronting discussion of disability in the first place. There is also Southerly’s usual feast of reviews and recent Australian and New Zealand writing, including striking new works by Anthony Mannix, Elizabeth Holdsworth, Peter Boyle, Koraly Dimitriadis and many others.' (Publication summary)
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pg. 77-92