Making the absent present: Disability, textual erasure and (not) writing sex

本研究探讨当代小说中的性书写，着重于文本的擦除和沉默作为省略性经验和性活动的模式。利用这些空白作为滑稽的挑衅，从我作为一个患有多发性硬化症的残疾妇女的积极性写作，我将采用创造性的批判性实践，如模仿/模仿来写性爱，并呈现以前没有的东西。由此产生的短篇小说循环和论文将打破写作性的规范惯例，提出某些类型的性和身体活动，以扩展对语言的语言学，认识论和社会可能性的理解。该研究将通过开发a）对短篇小说语料库有内在贡献的原创作品，B）散文小说性别书写的五种叙事策略实验;博士学位的进一步影响将包括制定性别写作教学法，包括可用于写作研讨会的文本资源库。

This research explores the writing of sex in contemporary fiction, focusing on textual erasure and silences as modes of eliding sexual experience and activities. Using these gaps as ludic provocations and writing from my positionality as a disabled woman with lived experience of multiple sclerosis, I will employ creative-critical practices such as pastiche/parody to write sexback in and make present what was formerly absent. The resulting short story cycle and thesis will disrupt normative conventions for writing sex, making present certain kinds of sexual and bodily activity to extend understandings of the linguistic, epistemological and social possibilities of language.The research will produce an original contribution to knowledge by developing a) original creative works which intrinsically contribute to the short story corpus, b) experiments in 5 narrative strategies for writing sex in prose fiction, c) a disability aesthetics for prose fiction. Further impacts of the PhD will include the development of a pedagogy for sex-writing, inclusive of a resource bank of texts which can be used in writing workshops.