Imagining Autism

Name: Imagining Autism
Brand: Indiana University Press
SKU: 9780253018007
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Fiction and Stereotypes on the Spectrum

Autor: Sonya Freeman Loftis

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Editura: Indiana University Press

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A disorder that is only just beginning to find a place in disability studies and activism, autism re...

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Autor

Sonya Freeman Loftis

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2015

Pagini

208

EAN

9780253018007

ISBN

0253018005

Enbook ID

09361183

Editura

Indiana University Press

Greutate

468

Dimensiuni

237 x 161 x 19

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A disorder that is only just beginning to find a place in disability studies and activism, autism remains in large part a mystery, giving rise to both fear and fascination. Sonya Loftis s groundbreaking study turns to literary representations of autism or autistic behavior to discover what impact they have had on cultural stereotypes, autistic culture, and the identity politics of autism. Imagining Autism looks at literary characters (and an author or two) widely understood as autistic, ranging from Conan Doyle s Sherlock Holmes, Shaw s St. Joan, Steinbeck s Lennie Small, and Harper Lee s Boo Radley to Mark Haddon s boy detective Christopher Boone and Steig Larsson s Lisbeth Salander. The silent figure trapped inside himself, the savant made famous by his other-worldly intellect, the brilliant detective linked to the criminal mastermind by their common neurology in these works characters on the spectrum become protean symbols, stand-ins for the chaotic forces of inspiration, contagion, and disorder. These powerful fictional depictions, Loftis argues, are also part of the imagined lives of the autistic, sometimes for good, sometimes threatening to undermine self-identity and the activism of the autistic community."

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