Amanda Tink
Amanda Tink is a PhD candidate at Western Sydney University, researching the influence of impairment and disability on Henry Lawson, Les Murray, and Alan Marshall. Other places she has been published include Southerly, Seizure, Wordgathering, and ArtsHub. She lives in front of her laptop and braille display with good coffee nearby, and tweets at @amandatink
All essays by Amanda Tink
Looking Terrified into the Years
My question, given the evidence that Sheffer provides, is ‘Why?’ Why should moral judgements about Asperger be withheld? I’m not asking this of Sheffer alone, but of anyone who hesitates to judge people who were as involved in the Nazi genocide of disabled people as Asperger certainly was.
Where are all the disabled writers?
Disappointingly, however, the majority of chapters in the Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability, continue the erasure of disability from literary history that is already so prevalent in culture. Overall the book fosters the impression that disabled people either don’t write much, or don’t write much of value.