Imagining autism : : fiction and stereotypes on the spectrum / / Sonya Freeman Loftis.
"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 wha...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, [2015] 2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (209 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- The autistic detective: Sherlock Holmes and his legacy
- The autistic savant: Pygmalion, Saint Joan, and the neurodiversity movement
- The autistic victim: Of mice and men and Flowers for Algernon
- The autistic gothic: To kill a mockingbird, The glass menagerie, and The sound and the fury
- The autistic child narrator: Extremely loud and incredibly close and The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
- The autistic label: diagnosing (and undiagnosing) The girl with the dragon tattoo
- Afterword.