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The chapter explores the ways self-published texts define their community and operate both within and outside narrative conventions of writing about disability. Blogging offers options for life writing that differ from the models pervasive in traditional publication venues, especially in the ability to manipulate visual space through alternative organizational patterns and narrative strategies. An analysis of the relationship between the paper diary and the blog offers specific insights into its functionality as a mode of disability life writing with the potential of addressing a wide variety of readerships through the integration of information, exposition, and personal narrative. Finally, self-referential performance art offers yet another medium for articulating embodied experience, and the conclusion thus treats the potential of performance art as a form of living text.
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Grubgeld, E. (2020). New Media, New Lives: Self-Publication, Blogging, Performance Art. In: Disability and Life Writing in Post-Independence Ireland. Literary Disability Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37246-0_6
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