Journal of Literary Disability  

Representations of Cognitive Impairment

Volume 2, Issue 1.  Edited by Lucy Burke and David Bolt.

Introduction: Thinking about cognitive impairment
Lucy Burke (pp.i-iv)

On Autistic Presence
Stuart Murray (pp.1-10)

“What He Found Not Monsters, He Made So”: The I-word and The Bathos of Exclusion”
D. Christopher Gabbard  (pp.11-21)

Sympathy as cognitive impairment in Robin Jenkins’s The Cone-Gatherers: the limits of homo sacer
Gavin Miller (pp.22-31)

 “A big deaf-mute moron”: Eugenic Traces in Carson McCullers’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Heidi Krumland (pp.32-43)

Autistic autobiography or autistic life narrative?
Irene Rose (pp.44-54)

The Unexceptional Schizophrenic: A Post-Postmodern Introduction
Catherine Prendergast (pp.55-62)

The Country of My Disease: Genes and Genealogy in Alzheimer’s life-writing
Lucy Burke (pp.63-74)

Note from the Editors: In editing JLD 2.1 (2008) we have been fortunate to work with James Berger, Thomas Couser, Martin Halliwell, Petra Kuppers, Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, Stuart Murray, James Overboe, Vaidehi Ramanathan, and Sharon Snyder. Thanks are also due to Stephen Bolt, Nisha Bolt, and Jane Goetzee for their ongoing help with graphic design, copy editing, administration and so on.

 

© 2006, 2007, 2008 JLD.  Note that the authors retain copyright of their articles.



Editor, Dr. David Bolt
bolt@talktalk.net

Book Reviews Editor, Dr. Clare Barker
c.f.barker@leeds.ac.uk