6/8/2023 0 Comments Katherine dunn books![]() Dunn explodes what we think we know about disability. ![]() These books move disability from the margins to the center, where they provide a critical lens to look at how we-disabled and nondisabled alike-live, or might live, our lives.Ī finalist for the National Book Award, Dunn’s novel is the story of the Binewski family, whose offspring are purposely born with various disabilities so they can perpetuate the family business-working in the circus. Here, I’ve compiled a list of texts that go further than that. The questions of the Fries Test are purposefully basic, or as someone once commented, the bare minimum of how disability should be accurately represented in our literary culture. Recently, at the behest of a writer colleague who was about to teach a class on writing with empathy (and inspired by the Bechdel Test), I came up with the Fries Test to measure the progress of disability representation. ![]() This interest has taken me across the globe, with a special focus in disability representation in Japan, and more recently in Germany. As a disabled writer, I’ve looked at how disability is represented in our literature for over two decades. ![]()
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