Agenda : Disability

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Pursuit in Fantastic Fiction: Lift for Strangeness and Time for Dragons

In Ayşe Sevim’s series named as “Story Key-maker”, consisting of two books Lift for Strangeness and Time for Dragons, a fantastic story in which the protagonist Şaban’s experience is presented to the reader.  

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What should be at the Center of Narrative: Obstacle or Childhood?

There are numerous ways to talk about the same thing and that is the magic of literature. Yet when it comes to disability, it becomes hard to catch the different and literary one.

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An Alternative Disabled Story: Different but the Same

Feridun Oral, who is both the author and illustrator of the book, Different but the Same tells the story of a yeanling that was “born a little different than others in the herd” from birth to her motherhood.

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Fingertips: Beyond the Stereotypical Disability Narrative

Seran Demiral's juvenile novel Fingertips, which was published in 2014, is among a handful of works focusing on disability in children's literature.