Imagining Autism
Fiction and Stereotypes on the Spectrum
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Word Count
52,000 words, Guess
Page Count
208 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveimaginingautismf0000loft
- ISBN-139780253018007
- ISBN-100253018005
- AmazonB015SGBJXM
- Library of Congress Control Number2015011624
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number919202231
- Better World Books9780253018007
- Open LibraryOL28578319M
Classifications
- LCCPN3426.A87L64 2015
- LCCPN3426.A87 L64 2015
Description
"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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