Imagining autism : fiction and stereotypes on the spectrum
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Imagining autism : fiction and stereotypes on the spectrum
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- Imagining autism : fiction and stereotypes on the spectrum
- Title remainder
- fiction and stereotypes on the spectrum
- Statement of responsibility
- Sonya Freeman Loftis
- Subject
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- American drama
- American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American fiction
- American fiction -- History and criticism
- Amerikansk litteratur -- historia
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Autism i litteraturen
- Autistic Disorder
- Autistic people in literature
- Autistic people in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Engelsk litteratur -- historia
- English drama
- 1900-1999
- English fiction
- English fiction -- History and criticism
- Identitet (psykologi) i litteraturen
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Medicine in Literature
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities
- Stereotypes (Social psychology)
- Stereotypes (Social psychology)
- Stereotyping
- English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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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- Literary form
- non fiction
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