tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996008019566474472.post8279513496206264228..comments2024-03-22T15:58:59.641+13:00Comments on An Angel @ My Blog: Janet Frame and PrizesPamela Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13581369727017085580noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996008019566474472.post-33316873310488963742010-01-03T15:51:55.747+13:002010-01-03T15:51:55.747+13:00Hi Pamela:
Her type of writing is different from c...Hi Pamela:<br />Her type of writing is different from crime fiction and vampire stories dont you think, being partly about her own life and people she knew? An not every work needs to have this theme for this idea still to be valid. I have read the autobiography and biography, and she has social impairment in these, and in Towards Another Summer, which also seems to be about her own life.Oh and I don't think Milly in Intensive Care is autistic, she has a mild intellectual handicap, but I can't see what difference that makes to anything. I also dont think anyone is trying to say JF is inferior if they say she has problems.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996008019566474472.post-6923397286713138162009-11-08T18:28:40.053+13:002009-11-08T18:28:40.053+13:00According to your logic, only vampires can write a...According to your logic, only vampires can write about vampires; only murderers are qualified to write crime fiction.<br /><br />Janet Frame herself said that she wanted to give a voice to the people who could not speak for themselves. And so she has.<br /><br />I hope you have read "INTENSIVE CARE" which also has a character who is autistic. That novel contains a chilling vision of a terrible futuristic society that labels and judges people and disposes of those who are not thought worthy to live. Because of her misdiagnosis, Janet Frame was briefly put into what she called a very privileged position of observing what a society is capable of doing to those it considers inferior in some way. She tried in several of her early novels to fictionalise the message and warning.<br /><br />I also hope you will read LIVING IN THE MANIOTOTO and some of the other works by Janet Frame - including her autobiography, which do not have a theme of "severe social impairment". <br /><br />INTENSIVE CARE also has a character who is a murderer, another is a soldier, another who is a mother, another a wife; Janet Frame was none of these either, yet she has been able to describe them too.Pamela Gordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581369727017085580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996008019566474472.post-24439359375516970242008-09-06T19:29:00.000+12:002008-09-06T19:29:00.000+12:00Hi Pamela:There are many autistic-trait characters...Hi Pamela:<BR/>There are many autistic-trait characters in Janet Frames work: eg. all the main characters in The Edge of The Alphabet (she uses "The Edge of the Alphabet" as a way to describe severe difficulty in social communication. The theme of severe social impairment seems to predominate in her work. Why did she write so much about this, rather than about "normal" people, if she was not at all this way?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com