Journal of Literary Disability 2.1 2008
Special Issue: Representations of Cognitive Impairment
Special Guest Editor: Lucy Burke
Introduction: Thinking about cognitive impairment by Lucy Burke (i-iv)
On Autistic Presence by Stuart Murray (1-10)
“What He Found Not Monsters, He Made So”: The I-word and The Bathos of Exclusion” by D. Christopher Gabbard (11-21)
Sympathy as cognitive impairment in Robin Jenkins’s The Cone-Gatherers: the limits of homo sacer by Gavin Miller (22-31)
“A big deaf-mute moron”: Eugenic Traces in Carson McCullers’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Heidi Krumland (32-43)
Autistic autobiography or autistic life narrative? by Irene Rose (44-54)
The Unexceptional Schizophrenic: A Post-Postmodern Introduction by Catherine Prendergast (55-62)
The Country of My Disease: Genes and Genealogy in Alzheimer’s life-writing by Lucy Burke (63-74)
Note from the Editor: In editing this issue it has been my honour to work with not only Lucy Burke, but also James Berger, Thomas Couser, Martin Halliwell, Petra Kuppers, Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, Stuart Murray, James Overboe, Vaidehi Ramanathan, and Sharon Snyder. Additionally, I am indebted to Stephen Bolt, Nisha Bolt, and Jane Goetzee for their ongoing help with graphic design, copy editing, administration and so on.
Editor, Dr. David Bolt |
Book Reviews Editor, Dr. Clare Barker
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