Date of Award
2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelors
Department
Humanities
First Advisor
Noble, Christopher
Area of Concentration
Liberal Arts with Rhetoric and Writing Secondary Field
Abstract
A cognitively disabled writer does not have the same problems as a writer who is not. I explore the extent to which a writer may struggle, the erasure of disability from the equation, and the implications of this from a critical psychology perspective. I found my project through literature review of writing inhibitions, and careful study of, rhetorical understandings of, and my own experience with, disability. I first contextualize my experience by describing some of my own writing endeavors, learning experiences, and limitations. I then establish and define subjective viewpoints of disability, courtesy of Dan Goodley's Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction. I then examine two studies that attempt to diagnose and assess the problem of "writer's block." Lastly, I give my perspective and synthesize the understandings at I know of disability studies and writing studies of the present. In the appendix, I share my own narrative about my disability and writing process, exploring the concept of writing as a whole and why embracing my own way of writing was so helpful to me.
Recommended Citation
Angsten, Harrison, "Healthy Writing, Unhealthy Writer: An Anomalous Autoethnography" (2022). Theses & ETDs. 6191.
https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/theses_etds/6191