![]() Misfits like her, along with people with visible difference to them, were taken to a terrifying institution called Obernewtyn. To me, Elspeth felt like the oldest fourteen year old in the world, her syllables precise, the slow sadness and fear of her childhood growing up in a world that was almost like mine, but not quite, where words took on heavy capitals and something vast and horrible had been done to the planet’s air and soil.Įlspeth was a Misfit – a person born with abilities the rest of the world did not understand. The story read in a strange, solemn first-person. I didn’t know what to expect or how to pronounce the title. I was given Obernewtyn, the first book, when I was eleven. ![]() This is one of the best known Australian post-disaster novels, by Isobelle Carmody, who can tell a story about cruelty and kindness like no one else. My top books that have affected me the most as both a disabled reader and disability scholar do two do two things: they centre disabled characters, and emphasize the glorious dailiness of different bodies and minds just living in the world. And if you are building a world or society completely from scratch, where are your disabled people? These works have always fascinated me because they rely so often on explicit world building. ![]() I’m finishing a PhD on representations of disability in children’s fiction – not just any children’s fiction, but speculative work in particular: science fiction and fantasy. I’m a librarian, writer, and academic, I was included in Growing Up in Australia, edited by Carly Findlay. For International Day of People With Disability, writer and academic Kit Kavanagh-Ryan makes five recommendations for speculative fiction novels that centre disabled characters: ![]()
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