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

这项研究探讨了当代小说中的性书写，重点关注文本的删除和沉默作为逃避性体验和性活动的方式。利用这些空白作为音乐的挑衅，从我作为一名有多发性硬化症生活经验的残疾女性的立场出发，我将使用创造性的批评做法，如仿冒/戏仿来写写性回放，并呈现以前缺失的东西。由此产生的短篇小说周期和论文将扰乱写性爱的规范惯例，使某些种类的性和身体活动扩展对语言、认识论和社会可能性的理解。这项研究将通过开发a)本质上有助于短篇小说语料库的原创创作作品，b)在散文小说中写写性的5种叙事策略的实验，c)散文小说的残疾美学，对知识做出原创性贡献。博士学位的进一步影响将包括发展性写作教育学，包括一个可用于写作讲习班的课本资源库。

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.