Open Letter to the Nation magazine

alec ramsdell a_ramsdell at hotmail.com
Thu Nov 5 15:26:43 PST 1998


Marta Russell wrote:


>Instead, the last piece written about disability was in the most recent
>issue. It is about a disabled man's anger which is a favorite topic
>amongst psyshologists about disability...aren't we all angry people who
>just cant adjust?? The article mentions the word political but as far
>as I can see there is no political analysis here at all, it is literary
>emoting about personal loss. It is a whining piece. I could not even
>read the whole thing, it was so sickening.

Marta,

I haven't seen the last issue, but this doesn't sound surprising. It's much in keeping with Louis' characterization of the slant towards banal psychologing in the fiction. What was the "political" slant of the article (or as much as you read)?

-Alec

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