Book Log

[anotherusedpage]

I believe I have not yet in 2011 read a book by a nondisabled white heterosexual man. If I keep this up until 2014 I might just about balance out my Oxford English degree....

Tiger Hills - Sarita Mandanna
Hero - Perry Moore
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini (Oh god I loved this so, so, so much. I'm really quite in love with Khaled Hosseini.)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid (This was on offer with the Khaled Hosseini in a train station book shop. I am SO GLAD I picked it up. It does really, really clever things with reader response theory and narrative. I have many thinky thoughts about it and would love to write it up properly at some point).
Telling Stories to Change the World: Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Communities and Make Social Justice Claims - ed Rickie Solinger, Madeline Fox, Kayhan Irani
Sociology: The Basics - Ken Plummer

I wanted to read more of: Books by disabled people; books by women of colour, especially queer women of colour; black, queer, and disabled performance studies; black, queer, and disabled sociology; Jewish queer women.

Comments

[highfantastical.livejournal.com]

(But - once again, for me - a huge problem is the fact that so few of the authors whom I see as disabled are widely considered to be so. It seems to be skated over vitually all the time, except when disability = pathology in the case of women writers with mental health problems. Argh.)

[highfantastical.livejournal.com]

(I don't mean skated over by you! I hope that was obvious, but am completely neurotic about giving the wrong impression on lj. I'm thinking of all the criticism I read.)

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

Yes, absolutely. Would like to have read more about disability as disability rather than pathology. eg Margery Kempe might well have had some sort of seizure disorder and almost certainly had mental health difficulties by contemporary standards; but this is almost always only pointed out in order to dismiss her.