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Reconsidering Autistic Narrative Agency and the Autobiography: The Curious Case of Tito Mukhopadhyay's Beyond the Silence: My Life, the world and Autism
2020
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
The primary purpose of this paper will be to investigate whether in narrativizing the subtleties of shame and stigma into the form of a coherent autobiography, the autistic autobiographer, Tito Mukhopadhyay, intentionally or unwittingly, explores different avenues regarding the types of autobiographical accounts, which causes us to re-imagine our understandings of autism and numerous other forms of cognitive impairment, and move past excessively deterministic and essentialist/normalizing
doi:10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.06
fatcat:ui4hbnk3jrffrg2agoq52otnf4