Disability Visibility by Alice Wong
Published 2020 · 75,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Politics & Society
How hard is Disability Visibility to read?
Disability Visibility scores 40 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 25 out of 100
- Accessible vocabulary. Disability studies terms.
- Sentence structure: 25 out of 100
- Abstraction: 28 out of 100
- Personal experience with political framing.
- Information density: 38 out of 100
- Personal essays. Moderate density.
- Narrative indirection: 100 out of 100
- Direct personal narratives.
- Symbolic density: 12 out of 100
- Disability as identity and politics.
- Ironic distance: 12 out of 100
- Sharp awareness of ableist assumptions.
- Resolution withholding: 12 out of 100
- The struggle for disability justice continues.
- Structural complexity: 18 out of 100
- Anthology of independent essays.
How Disability Visibility is regarded
Disability Visibility holds a literary regard score of 39 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.