‘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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Curtin University
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| author | Robertson, Rachel Anne |
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| description | 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 the cultural dimensions of autism. The creative work is a series of autobiographical essays. The exegesis analyses five published parental memoirs and the narrative strategies used within them. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-25692017-02-20T06:37:30Z ‘And Besides: Autobiographical Essays on Parenting and Difference’ and ‘Representation, Counter-narrative and Culture in Parental Memoirs about Autism’ Robertson, Rachel Anne 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 the cultural dimensions of autism. The creative work is a series of autobiographical essays. The exegesis analyses five published parental memoirs and the narrative strategies used within them. 2011 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2569 en Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Robertson, Rachel Anne ‘And Besides: Autobiographical Essays on Parenting and Difference’ and ‘Representation, Counter-narrative and Culture in Parental Memoirs about Autism’ |
| title | ‘And Besides: Autobiographical Essays on Parenting and Difference’ and ‘Representation, Counter-narrative and Culture in Parental Memoirs about Autism’ |
| title_full | ‘And Besides: Autobiographical Essays on Parenting and Difference’ and ‘Representation, Counter-narrative and Culture in Parental Memoirs about Autism’ |
| title_fullStr | ‘And Besides: Autobiographical Essays on Parenting and Difference’ and ‘Representation, Counter-narrative and Culture in Parental Memoirs about Autism’ |
| title_full_unstemmed | ‘And Besides: Autobiographical Essays on Parenting and Difference’ and ‘Representation, Counter-narrative and Culture in Parental Memoirs about Autism’ |
| title_short | ‘And Besides: Autobiographical Essays on Parenting and Difference’ and ‘Representation, Counter-narrative and Culture in Parental Memoirs about Autism’ |
| title_sort | ‘and besides: autobiographical essays on parenting and difference’ and ‘representation, counter-narrative and culture in parental memoirs about autism’ |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2569 |