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Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies Volume 12, Issue 3 (August 2018)

 

Focusing on representations of disability, the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (JLCDS) publishes a wide variety of textual analyses that are informed by disability theory and, by extension, experiences of disability.

 

The above issue is now available online at: https://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/jlcds/12/3?ai=sk&ui=273v&af=T

 

You can keep up to date with the journal by clicking here to sign up to new issue alerts, and can learn more about the title at its website page here.

 

Contents:

 

   Introduction: Mainstreaming Literature for Young People

 

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   If Lessons Are to Be Learned: Depiction of Disability in Mienai Bakudan (The Invisible Bomb)

 

   Yayoi Mashimo

 

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   Acknowledging Ability and Agency in Book Discussion Communities: Adolescent Boys Experiencing Psychosocial Distress Examine Suicide in Young Adult Novels

 

   Janelle Mathis and Polly Vaughan

 

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   “Just Like Me, Just Like You”: Narrative Erasure as Disability Normalization in Children’s Picture Books

 

   Tanja Aho and Grit Alter

 

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   Neurodiverse Self-Discovery and Social Acceptance in Curious Incident and Marcelo in the Real World

 

   Monica Orlando

 

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   You’re Queer? That’s So Lame!: Queering Disability in Brian Francis’s Fruit: A Novel about a Boy and His Nipples and Mariko Tamaki’s (You) Set Me on Fire

 

   Nicole Markotić

 

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   Fishlegs’s Journey: Acknowledged and Unacknowledged Stigma in the How to Train Your Dragon Book Series

 

   Cath Nichols

 

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   Comment from the Field: Disability and Disciplines 2017, Liverpool Hope University

 

   Owen Barden

 

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   Comment from the Field: Reclaiming “Freak” Discourses of Queer Desirability in Circus Amok

 

   Jade Bryan

 

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   Book Reviews

 

   Owen Barden and Robert McRuer

 

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   About the Contributors

 

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   Copyright 2018 Liverpool University Press. All Rights Reserved.

 

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