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The Secret Life of Stories - From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read (Paperback)
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The Secret Life of Stories - From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read (Paperback)
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How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the
pleasures of reading Narrative informs everything we think, do,
plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to
stories, gauging their "well-formedness" within a couple of years
of learning to walk and talk. Some argue that the capacity to
understand narrative is innate to our species; others claim that
while that might be so, the invention of writing then re-wired our
brains. In The Secret Life of Stories, Michael Berube tells a
dramatically different tale, in a compelling account of how an
understanding of intellectual disability can transform our
understanding of narrative. Instead of focusing on characters with
disabilities, he shows how ideas about intellectual disability
inform an astonishingly wide array of narrative strategies,
providing a new and startling way of thinking through questions of
time, self-reflexivity, and motive in the experience of reading.
Interweaving his own stories with readings of such texts as
Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Haddon's The Curious Incident of
the Dog in the Night-Time, Kingston's The Woman Warrior, and Philip
K. Dick's Martian Time-Slip, Berube puts his theory into practice,
stretching the purview of the study of literature and the role of
disability studies within it. Armed only with the tools of close
reading, Berube demonstrates the immensely generative possibilities
in the ways disability is deployed within fiction, finding in them
powerful meditations on what it means to be a social being, a
sentient creature with an awareness of mortality and causality-and
sentience itself. Persuasive and witty, Michael Berube engages
Harry Potter fans and scholars of literature alike. For all
readers, The Secret Life of Stories will fundamentally change the
way we think about the way we read.
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