Sonya Freeman Loftis

Imagining Autism

Fiction and Stereotypes on the Spectrum

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Produktbeschreibung

Sonya Freeman Loftis is Assistant Professor of English at Morehouse College, where she specializes in Shakespeare and disability studies. Her work has appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly, Shakespeare Bulletin, SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, and South Atlantic Review.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9780253018007
• ISBN-10: 0253018005
• Artikelnr.: 42908856

Autorenporträt

Sonya Freeman Loftis is Assistant Professor of English at Morehouse College, where she specializes in Shakespeare and disability studies. Her work has appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly, Shakespeare Bulletin, SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, and South Atlantic Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Autistic Detective: Sherlock Holmes and his Legacy
2. The Autistic Savant: Pygmalion, Saint Joan, and the Neurodiversity
Movement
3. The Autistic Victim: Of Mice and Men and Flowers for Algernon
4. The Autistic Gothic: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Glass Menagerie, and
The Sound and the
Fury
5. The Autistic Child Narrator: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and
The Curious Incident
of the Dog in the Night-Time
6. The Autistic Label: Diagnosing (and Un-Diagnosing) the Girl with the
Dragon Tattoo
Afterword
Notes
Index