After starting Haddon's The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, I've decided that I want to
use this as the primary text in my paper. As a future educator, I’m extremely
interested in using this as the primary text after seeing that the main character
has autism. Autism has always been a point of high interest for me as I decided
I wanted to become a teacher after working with an autistic child as a long
term para-pro prior to coming to MSU. This is essentially as far as I’ve
thought about my paper other than the fact that I feel that this will be the
most interesting and beneficial route for me personally. However, I’m afraid
that I’ll run into a high amount of difficulty in finding relatable areas of
the theoretical texts. I do think that I could use something related to
self-identity from one of the texts when reading Othello, however, I’ll have to look into this further and hope that
I can relate autism to one of our theoretical texts.
Sounds great! I'm happy to help you find something, Brandon. What did you think of the Zunshine reading for this week? The Berube next Thursday could work as well re: disability studies, though the section on Autism is relatively short. Also happy to guide you to some articles by Ralph Salvarese, a literary scholar who adopted an autistic child and now who does work on this... http://www.fhi.duke.edu/events/ralph-james-savarese-lecture
ReplyDeleteI'll show a video today that may also be of interest.