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Author:agent Amanda Tink

Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Deafness : A Key to Lawson’s Writing

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'Since Henry Lawson became deaf at the age of fourteen six years before he was first published, his experience of impairment and disability profoundly affected both the style and the content of his writing. This is something he was well aware of. In a Fragment of Autobiography he wrote that his deafness was ' a thing which was to cloud my whole life, to drive me into myself, and to be, perhaps, in a great measure responsible for my writing' (Roderick 185) Reading his writing with this in mind, it's clear that he meant not simply that his deafness was the reason he put pen to paper, but that it influenced his word choices, themes, perspectives, and techniques. ' (Introduction)

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Writing Disability in Australia:

This work is affiliated because it is a criticism written on deaf author Henry Lawson and his works.

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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. 141-154