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Stereotypically Autistic? : Autism Portrayals in Young Adult Fiction.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hesse, Eva Charlotte.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- ArchitekturDenken, Vol. 9: Der Wert der Oberfläche
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2025.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Fictional representations of autism hold immense power over social perception, and yet such portrayals often remain stereotypical and one-sided. Based on discourse theory, Eva Charlotte Hesse explores the origins of autism stereotypes with regard to ideas of normality and deviance, their impact on the lives of autistic individuals, and.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- Short Summaries
- A Theory on Characters
- Larger and Lesser Than Life
- Diagnosing Characters?
- How Readers Recognise Concepts in Literature
- Chasing a Phantom
- Stereotypes and Knowledge
- Stereotypes in Reading
- Autism Stereotypes
- Autism Stereotypes Portrayed in Fiction
- Normality and Deviance
- Discourses of the Public
- Labelling
- Deviance in Fiction - The London Eye Mystery
- Deviance and Mental Health
- Identification and Representation
- Young Adult Fiction and Normality
- 'Realistic' and 'Good' Portrayals
- Who Gets to Narrate Autism?
- The Narrative of Theory of Mind - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
- The Importance and Risks of Autism Narrative
- The Medical Discourse of Autism
- Diagnostic Criteria and Symptoms
- Definitions of Autism in Fiction
- High- and Low-functioning?
- Masking and Camouflaging
- Masking and Camouflaging in Autism Portrayals
- Narrating Autism
- Visual Rhetoric and Semiotics
- Pragmatics
- Pragmatic Competence and Deviance in Autism Portrayals
- Unreliable Narrators?
- Niches, Genres, and Roles - Trueman Bradley
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Literary Works
- Index
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 3-8394-2801-7
- OCLC:
- 1545806952
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