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  Index

  Abbey Road (Beatles), 201n15

  Adams, Rachel, 13–15

  Adaptation (film), 199n14

  Airplane! (film), 163

  Aliens (film), 143

  Alighieri, Dante, 74

  Amis, Martin, 141

  “Among School Children” (Yeats), 184

  Anderson, Phyllis Eisenson, 16–19

  Anthropocene (proposed epoch), 108–109

  Aristotle, 74, 82, 83, 128, 130, 202n3

  Arnold, Matthew, 186

  As Good As it Gets (film), 43, 197n2

  Asperger’s syndrome, 129, 168, 196n5

  Atkins v. Virginia (Supreme Court decision), 192

  Atwood, Margaret, 21; Surfacing, 21

  Augustine, 83–84, 115

  Austen, Jane, 168

  Pride and Prejudice, 205n6

  autism, 17–18, 22–24, 27, 49–50, 66, 86–87, 91, 95, 126–130, 132, 135–136, 167–171, 175, 197n4, 202n2, 202–203n4; as “mindblindness,” 22–24, 107, 175; attributed to Michael K, 66; in Martian Time-Slip, 86–105

  Avatar (film), 203n7

  Avellaneda, Alonso Fernández de, 141

  Away From Her (film), 2

  Babe (film), 6–7, 11–12

  Bakhtin, Mikhail, 83

  Balzac, Honoré de, 55; “Sarrasine,” 55

  Barnes, Djuna, 199n5

  Baron-Cohen, 22–23, 167, 203n4; and theory of autism as “mindblindness,” 22–24, 167

  Barthes, Roland, 54–55, 109, 198n8; Mythologies, 198n8; S/Z, 54–55, 109, 198n8

  Baucom, Ian, 200n11

  Beckett, Samuel, 5, 161, 192; Molloy, 117, 130; Murphy, 5, 161

  Berger, James, 49, 136, 202n4

  Bérubé, James (Jamie), 4, 6–12, 84, 198n6

  Bérubé, Nicholas (Nick), 4–6, 73, 196n3, 199n14

  Biklen, Douglas, 170; Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone, 170

  Binet, Alfred, 116

  biopower, 48, 66, 102

  Blackwell Companion to American Literary Studies, 13

  Blamires, Harry, 74; The Bloomsday Book, 74

  Bloom, Paul, 195n2

  Booth, Wayne, 121; The Rhetoric of Fiction, 121

  Borges, Jorge Luis, 142; “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” 142

  Boyd, Brian, 176, 178–185, 188–189, 195n2, 204n4, 204n5, 205n7, 20
5n9; On the Origin of Stories, 180–185, 188

  Boyd, Todd, and the “Magic Negro,” 100

  Brave New World (Huxley), 10

  Brooks, Peter: epigraph, 3, 109, 118, 179; Reading for the Plot, epigraph, 3, 109

  Bruinius, Harry, 201n17; Better for All the World, 201n17

  Burks, Hannah, 199n1

  Burton, Stacy, 79, 201n14

  Butler, Judith, 179

  Butler, Octavia, 30–31; Xenogenesis trilogy, 30; and disability, 31

  Carroll, Joseph, 176, 178–180, 195n2, 204n4

  Cervantes, Miguel de, 30, 139–142, 151; Don Quixote, 30, 71, 121, 136–137, 139–145, 160; Don Quixote (character), 121, 137, 139–145, 148, 159; Sancho Panza, 139–141

  Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 200n12

  Chekhov, Anton, 98

  Coetzee, J. M., 5, 21, 24, 64, 66, 68, 71, 151–153, 158, 192; Foe, 53, 68, 125, 136, 151–158, 160, 164; Friday, 21, 151–159; Susan Barton, 151–158; Life and Times of Michael K, 5, 53, 64–72, 85, 114, 123, 197n10; Michael K (character), 21, 24, 50, 64–72, 114, 121–123, 152, 197n10

  “Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy” (conference), 29

  Cohen, Andrew, 191, 205n10

  Cohen, Philip, 199n5

  Conrad, Joseph, 122, 124;The Secret Agent, 122–125, 128, 151, 155, 158; Stevie, 122–125, 128, 151, 155

  Crist, Stephanie Allen, 196n5; “Should We Label Characters?,” 196n5

  Critical Inquiry, 19

  Culler, Jonathan, 205n9; Structuralist Poetics, 205n9

  Danilovic, Sandra, 200n7

  Dawkins, Richard, 180

  deconstruction, 168–169, 184

  Defoe, Daniel, 151–153, 155; Robinson Crusoe, 151–153; Roxana, 151–152, 203n9

  de Lauretis, Teresa, 128, 202n3

  de Man, Paul, 184

  Deresiewicz, William, 204–205n6

  Desiderio, Frank, 199n15

  detective fiction, 117–118

  Dick, Philip K., 15, 30, 84–86, 91, 97, 116, 124, 150, 200n8; Martian Time-Slip, 15, 58, 66, 84–105, 108–111, 123–124, 150, 156, 159, 164, 167, 192, 194; Doreen Anderton, 88–93; Jack Bohlen, 85, 87–100, 150; Heliogabalus, 92–94, 96–100, 116; Arnie Kott, 85–102, 115, 150, 157; schizophrenia, 90–91, 94–97; Manfred Steiner, 86–94, 96–105, 109, 115, 134, 150, 156, 159; role of “precogs” in the fiction of, 30; We Can Build You, 200n8

  Dickens, Charles, 9, 188; A Christmas Carol, 9, 53; Great Expectations, 12

  Dickinson, Emily, 182

  Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (film), 120

  disability and functions, 56–58

  disability as “normality,” 53–55, 198n8

  disability hierarchy, 27, 196n6

  “disability masquerade” (Ellen Samuels), 2

  disability rights movement, 27, 56

  disability terminology, 28–30

  Down syndrome, 18, 28, 50, 116

  Doyle, Arthur Conan, 117, 134; “The Naval Treaty,” 117; “Silver Blaze,” 135

  Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel), 182–183, 186

  Dubreuil, Laurent, 205n7

  Dumbo (film), 1–2, 43, 197n3

  Dutton, Denis, 176, 178–180, 204n4

  Eliade, Mircea, 201n14

  The English Patient (Ondaatje), 53, 198n5

  eugenics, 116, 124

  evocriticism (“literary Darwinism”), 3, 21–22, 58, 175–189, 195n2, 204n4, 204n6

  Ex Parte Briseno (Texas court decision), 191–192

  fabula and szujet, 29, 75, 77, 199n2

  Facebook, 16–17

  Faulkner, William, 76–77, 79, 82, 111, 113, 116, 199n3; “A Rose for Emily,” 19, 196n4; The Sound and the Fury, 6, 14, 53, 58, 73–85, 103, 111–116, 123, 149, 159, 199–200n5; “Appendix,” 77, 199n3; Benjy Compson, 14, 57, 74–85, 91, 93, 111–115, 121, 126, 128, 200–201n14; “bluegum chillen” passage, 75, 78–81; Dilsey, 111–115, 200–201n14

  Ferguson, David, 197n3, 200n7, 200n9

  Finding Nemo (film), 53, 198n5

  Fish, Stanley, 196n4; Is There a Text in this Class?, 196n4

  Flesch, William, 187–188; Comeuppance, 187–188

  Foucauldian definition of “author,” 77

  Frank, Joseph, 82, 199n5

  Frankenstein, Victor, 40

  Free Willy (film), 11

  Freud, Sigmund, 128, 202n3

  Friedman, C. S., 26; This Alien Shore, 26–27, 30

  Frith, Christopher, 139

  Galaxy Quest (film), 139, 143–144

  Galton, Francis, 116

  Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie, 27, 54, 198n7; Extraordinary Bodies, 27; “realistic” mode of visual representation, 54

  Geffen, Arthur, 200–201n14

  Gide, André, 161, 199n5

  Glee (television show), 28, 196n9

  “glitches” (gamer term), 88, 151, 156–158

  Goddard, H. H., 116

  Godden, Richard, 79–80

  Goffman, Erving, 40, 196n6; Stigma, 196n6

  Gottschall, Jonathan, 186–187; The Storytelling Animal, 186–187

  Gould, Stephen Jay, 116, 201n17, 204n4

  Haddon, Mark, 14, 79, 129–130, 134–135, 138, 151, 165, 202n4, 203n6; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, 14, 22, 79, 118, 128–138, 143–144, 161, 169; Christopher Boone, 129–138, 140, 143–144, 148, 159, 161, 165, 169, 202n4, 203n5

  Happy Feet (film), 44, 197n3

  Hawking, Stephen, 200n6; A Brief History of Time, 200n6

  Henderson, Cary, 198–199n13; Partial View, 198–199n3

  Herman, David, 204n3; “Re-Minding Modernism,” 204n3

  Hilton, Leon, 198n9, 204n1

  Holland, Norman, 196n4; 5 Readers Reading, 196n4

  Homer, 119–120, 183; The Odyssey, 120, 183; Odysseus, 119–122, 125, 183

  Homo sacer, 64, 69, 114

  Horton Hears a Who, 183

  House of Games (film), 120

  intellectual disability chronotope, 83–85, 103–104, 111, 115–116, 159

  Iser, Wolfgang, 176

  Ishiguro, Kazuo, 197n10; Never Let Me Go, 197n10

  James, Henry, 173–174

  Janesch, Kassia, 197n10

  Johnson, Barbara, 184

  Jones, Owen, 181

  Jones, Radhika, 153, 203n9

  Joyce, James, 76, 200n5, 204n10; Stephen Dedalus, 74–75, 82; Ulysses, 74–76, 82, 200n5; Ulysses,“Circe” chapter, 75–76; Ulysses, “Proteus” chapter, 74, 82

  Kanner, Leo, 18

  Kempley, Rita, 200n10; “‘Magic Negro’ Saves the Day, but at the Cost of his Soul,” 200n10

  Kermode, Frank, 12, 83, 112–113, 186, 191; The Sense of an Ending, 12, 113, 186

  Keyes, Daniel, 79, 129; Flowers for Algernon, 79, 108, 129

  Kingston, Maxine Hong, 30, 58, 165; The Woman Warrior, 30, 58–64, 85, 122, 124, 153; Moon Orchid, 59–61; “retarded” boy, 61–64

  Klein, Andy (movie review of Memento), 199n2

  Kociemba, David, 196n9; “‘This Isn’t Something I Can Fake’: Reactions to Glee’s Representations of Disability,” 196n9

  Kramnick, Jonathan, 179–180, 186, 195n2, 204n4, 205n9; “Against Literary Darwinism,” 179–180

  Lawrence, D. H., 161

  L’Engle, Madeleine, 17, 39; A Wrinkle in Time, 17–20, 38–40, 44, 61; Charles Wallace Murry, 20, 24–25, 39–40; Meg Murry, 17–19, 25, 39–40, 196n5

  Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 199n5

  Laokoon, 199n5

  Lewontin, Richard, 204n4

  Life as We Know It, 53–54

  Like Mike (film), 11

  Lyon, Janet, 197n1, 199n4, 204n10; “On the Asylum Road with Woolf and Mew,” 197n1

  Marx, Karl, 69; The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, 69

  McRuer, Robert, 197n2, 198n8; Crip Theory, 197n2, 198n8

  Melville, Herman, 49, 54, 184; Ahab, 26, 49–50, 52, 178; Billy Budd, 184; The Confidence-Man, 120, 163; Moby-Dick, 26, 48–52, 178

  Memento (film), 58, 75, 83, 128, 150, 199n2

  Menand, Louis, 204n2; “What Comes Naturally,” 2
04n2

  metarepresentation, 138–139, 142–144, 160

  Mitchell, David, and Sharon Snyder, 41–53, 56; Narrative Prosthesis, 41–53

  Modern Language Association, 13–15, 30, 169–170; panel on “Narrative and Intellectual Disability,” 13–15

  Monk (television show), 118; Adrian Monk (character), 118

  Montaigne, 54

  Moon, Elizabeth, 14, 126, 129, 138, 202n1; Lou Arrendale, 126–29, 202n1; The Speed of Dark, 14, 126–130, 135, 138, 201–202n1

  Morrison, Toni, 192

  Mrs. Doubtfire (film), 11

  Mukhopadhyay, Tito, 170

  Murphy, Robert, 54

  My Left Foot (film), 2

  Nabokov, Vladimir, 30, 144, 146–151, 158, 161, 164–165, 203n8; Charles Kinbote, 144–150, 162–163; hilarious index containing subentries much sillier than this one, 164; Lolita, 178; Pale Fire, 30, 58, 136, 144–151, 155, 160–165, 203n8

  Nagel, Thomas, 107

  Naked Gun (film), 163

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, 110

  Noll, Steven, 201n17; Feeble-Minded in Our Midst, 201n17; Mental Retardation in America (with James W. Trent), 201n17

  Nussbaum, Martha, 9, 188; Poetic Justice, 9, 188

  One Hundred Years of Solitude (Garcia Márquez), 53, 198n5

  orphans, stories about, 10–12

  Osteen, Mark, 130, 196n7, 202n2, 203n5; Autism and Representation, 130, 196n7

  Paris is Burning (film), 55, 198n8

  Parry, Benita, 152–153

  Pinker, Steven, 176–178, 181; Blank Slate, 176–177

  Pirandello, Luigi, 142, 151; Henry IV, 142–145, 159

  Pleistocene epoch, 3, 179, 186–187

  Poore, Carol, 52

  Potter, Lauren, 28

  Powers, Richard, 84, 105–108, 111, 163; The Echo Maker, 84, 105–108, 111; Capgras syndrome in, 106; Prisoner’s Dilemma, 163

  Prendergast, Catherine, 196n7; “The Unexceptional Schizophrenic: A Post-Postmodern Introduction,” 196n7

  Price, Margaret, 196n7; Mad at School, 196n7

  Prince, Dawn, 170

  Prince, Gerald, 176

  Proust, Marcel, 175

  Pullman, Phillip, 118–122; The Golden Compass, 118–122; His Dark Materials, 118–122; Lyra Belacqua, 118–122, 125, 140; multiple universes hypothesis in, 119–120

  Pynchon, Thomas, 98, 117; The Crying of Lot 49, 98, 117

  quantum theory, 178

  Quayson, Ato, 20, 37–38, 40–41, 50–58, 66, 69, 103, 154, 192–193, 198n5, 198n6, 198n9; Aesthetic Nervousness, 37–38, 40–41, 50–58, 192–193; disability as “hermeneutic impasse,” 38, 69–70, 151, 154; disability as “short circuit,” 55–57, 103, 160, 198n9; typology of disability representation, 53–55