5/26/2023 0 Comments Sing Fox to Me by Sarah Kanake![]() ![]() In the novel, Samson is presented as being very aware of his difference. However, I did note that I’d like to come back to her characterisation of a person with Down syndrome, so I’m very pleased to have found her essay, which was published, in fact, the same day I published my post. I chose to focus on other elements of the novel, namely the Gothic aspect, and the theme of loss. When I wrote my review of Sing fox to me, I referred to Samson’s Down syndrome but I didn’t feature it. Her essay, which I’ve just found today, is titled “On telling the stories of characters with Down syndrome” (and you can read it online.) It’s an excellent essay, and I’ll come back to it in a minute. However, she has written about her interest elsewhere, including, most accessibly for us, at The Conversation. In the media release accompanying my copy of Sarah Kanake’s Sing fox to me ( my review), we are told not only that Kanake’s brother has Down syndrome but that she has a PhD in creative writing from the Queensland University of Technology “on the representations of Down syndrome in Australian literature”.Īs far as I know her thesis hasn’t been published. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |