‘And Besides: Autobiographical Essays on Parenting and Difference’ and ‘Representation, Counter-narrative and Culture in Parental Memoirs about Autism’

This thesis comprises a creative work and an exegesis, and explores parental memoirs about autistic children. I examine the narrative stances and strategies available to parental memoirists and how these can be used to represent the child ethically, to create a counter-narrative and to engage with t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robertson, Rachel Anne
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2569