I am personally in favour in Narratives as I think it gives a understand for the complex relationships and psycho-social responses towards impairment. I am away that many social model theories feel narratives undermine the social model and disturbs the impersonal ideology of social model purity. I do feel disability is a far more complex than many disability movementists would care to admit.
I personally want to share my story as it is a story about breaking free from oppression both from non-disabled and disabled people. I feel at the moment my complex lifestyle decisions are not known by others and that I should be a part of the knowledge which makes our society. The self-analysis and thought about the nature of drooling, for example, within a business setting, deserves exploration in a personal way.
Simon
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From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Deborah Marks
Sent: 20 May 2000 06:49
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Subject: Re: Narratives of Disability & Impairment
Dear All
This response is a bit slow, since i sent it directly to Michael at first.
On
subject of Michaels question earlier in week about 'why narratives?'.
Since I am editing special issue on experience for DSQ, I have been thinking
about this.
My first response to your question is what is so wrong with exploring
experience?
Surely narrative accounts are capable not just of giving an individual
persons perspective, but also locating that perspective within a social and
cultural context. I do not understand the necessary connection between
narratives and personal tragedy theory (which I think is what Michael was
implying in his question).
In response to Janes request for suggestions of narrative accounts, I
recommend Lucy Grealy's book Autobiography of a Face, and off course, old
favourites like Hockenberrys Wheelchairs and WarZones, Anne Fingers
wonderful book Past Due, Donna Willians book Nobody NOwhere, John Hulls book
On Sight and Insight.
I refer to several other wonderful narrative accounts in my book,
Disability, Controversial Debates published by Routledge last year, where I
also discuss the whole controversy surrounding the value of narrative
accounts). I hope to explore this further in the DSQ special issue which is
currently being prepared. I will do another call for papers in summer. So am
interested to here other views.
Best wishes
Deborah Marks
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