ENGL 563

Fall 2018

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Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: One year of graduate study of literature or consent of instructor.

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39513
Lecture-Discussion
T
3:00PM -4:50PM
R
29 English Building
Gaedtke, A
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/27/18-12/12/18
Section Title:
Neurodiversity, Self-Narration
Section Info:
Neurodiversity, Self-Narration, and The (Post-)Human Many recent works of fiction, memoir, and theory attempt to represent the lived experiences of neurologically atypical or disabled subjects. Some of these works tacitly assume that discursive self-representation performs essential functions such as construction, maintenance, or repair of subjectivity; other theorists, such as the philosopher Galen Strawson and medical humanities scholar Angela Woods, have raised interesting challenges to these assumptions. This seminar will examine these debates by asking in what ways categories such as “subject,” “person,” and “human” are thought to be underwritten by a capacity to give an account of oneself, and what might count as such an “account.” We will examine recent examples of fiction and memoirs of neurological difference such autism, schizophrenia, and brain trauma in light of recent work in medical humanities, disability studies, philosophy of mind, and psychiatry that address the politics and aesthetics of neurodiversity. We will also consider how theories of “the posthuman” might transform many assumptions about cognitive and affective difference. Might our understandings of disability or difference change if prosthesis is no longer regarded as an exceptional, minoritizing condition but as the norm? What role can the study of language, literature, and narration play in these debates? Readings will likely include works by Siri Hustvedt, Will Self, Mark Haddon, Elyn Saks, Richard Powers, Ian McEwan, Tito Mukhopadhyay, Rita Charon, Nikolas Rose, Michael Bérubé, Judith Butler, Katherine Hayles, Angela Woods, Galen Strawson, Jason Tougaw, and others.
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