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Three Days to Walk : a personal story of life writing and disability consciousness in China.
- Source :
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Disability & Society . May2012, Vol. 27 Issue 3, p311-323. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Through a close reading of Three Days to Walk, a memoir of disability by Chinese writer Zhang Yuncheng, this paper develops a new understanding of self-narrated life writing and its intersection with disability consciousness in the contemporary Chinese context. It examines the changing nature of disability life writing since the end of the early 1980s, a time when the images and voices of disabled began to emerge from effective cultural invisibility and silence. In a move away from state-sponsored ‘triumph over tragedy’ biographical narratives typical of the immediate post-Cultural Revolution period, Three Days to Walk is characteristic of a new popular trend to publish self-narrated life stories that reveal unique and intimate histories of disability experience both imbued with and propelled by a burgeoning sense of disability consciousness in the Chinese context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *ATTITUDE (Psychology)
*DISABILITIES
PSYCHOLOGY of People with disabilities
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09687599
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Disability & Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 104544134
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2012.654984