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Imagining Autism

Fiction and Stereotypes on the Spectrum

By: Sonya Freeman Loftis

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Imagining Autism

Fiction and Stereotypes on the Spectrum

By: 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 Freeman Loftis's groundbreaking study examines 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 fictional characters (and an author or two) widely understood as autistic, ranging from Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes 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—these characters become protean symbols, stand-ins for the chaotic forces of inspiration, contagion, and disorder. They are also part of the imagined lives of the autistic, argues Loftis, sometimes for good, sometimes threatening to undermine self-identity and the activism of the autistic community.

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Indiana University Press

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0253018137

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9780253018137

Shakespeare and Disability Studies

By: Sonya Freeman Loftis

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Shakespeare and Disability Studies

By: Sonya Freeman Loftis

Shakespeare and Disability Studies argues that an understanding of disability theory is essential for scholars, teachers, and directors who wish to create more inclusive and accessible theatrical and pedagogical encounters with Shakespeare's plays. Previous work in the field of early modern disability studies has focused largely on Renaissance characters that a modern audience might view as disabled. This volume argues that the conception of disability as residing within individual literary characters limits understandings of disability in Shakespeare: by theorizing disability vis-a-vis characters, previous studies have largely overlooked readers, performers, and audience members who self-identify as disabled. Focusing on issues such as accessible performances, inclusive casting, and Shakespeare-based therapy, Shakespeare and Disability Studies reinvigorates textual approaches to disability in Shakespeare by reading accessibility as an art form and exploring both the powers and potential limits of universal design in theatrical performance. The book examines the complex interdependence among the concepts of theory, access, and inclusion--demonstrating the crucial role of disability theory in building access and examining the ways that access may both open and foreclose inclusive dramatic practice. Shakespeare and Disability Studies challenges Shakespearians, from students to audience members, from classroom teachers to theatre practitioners, to consider how Shakespeare, as industry, as high art, and as cultural symbol, impacts the lived reality of those with disabled bodies and/or minds"--Publisher's description.

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Oxford University Press

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0198864531

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Imagining Autism

Fiction and Stereotypes on the Spectrum

By: Sonya Freeman Loftis

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Fiction and Stereotypes on the Spectrum

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Shakespeare and Disability Studies

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Shakespeare’s Surrogates

Rewriting Renaissance Drama

By: S. Loftis

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Shakespeare’s Surrogates

Rewriting Renaissance Drama

By: S. Loftis

Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that adapting Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern drama's major aesthetic movements. Loftis posits that playwrights' reactions to Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked to create their public personas, inform their theoretical writings, and influence the development of new genres.

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Springer

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1137321377

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Imagining Autism

Imagining Autism

Shakespeare and Disability Studies

Shakespeare and Disability Studies

Imagining Autism

Imagining Autism

Shakespeare and Disability Studies

Shakespeare and Disability Studies

Shakespeare’s Surrogates

Shakespeare’s Surrogates

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