The right way to be crippled & naked
Subtitle: the fiction of disability
By: edited by Sheila Black, Michael Northen, Annabelle Hayse
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9781941026359
Subjects: American Short stories; People with disabilities; Fiction
Description: "Welcome to the worlds of the disabled. The physically disabled. The mentally disabled. The emotionally disabled. What does that word "disabled" mean anyway? Is there a right way to be crippled? Editors Sheila Black and Michael Northen (co-editors of the highly praised anthology Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability) join newcomer Annabelle Hayse to present short stories by Jillian Weise, Dagoberto Gilb, Anne Finger, Stephen Kuusisto, Thom Jones, Lisa Gill, Floyd Skloot and others. These authors--all who experience the "disability" they write about--crack open the cage of our culture's stereotypes. We look inside, and, through these people we thought broken, we uncover new ways of seeing and knowing"--