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This book sets out to write nothing short of a new theory of the heroic for today's world. It delves into the "why" of the hero as a natural companion piece to the "how" of the hero as written by Northrop Frye and Joseph Campbell over half a century ago. The novels of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo serve as an anchor to the theory as it challenges our notions of what is heroic about nymphomaniacs, Holocaust survivors, spurious academics, cult followers, terrorists, celebrities, photographers, and writers of novels who all attempt to claim the right to be "hero".

Heroes in literature. --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Bellow, Saul --- DeLillo, Don --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Amerikansk litteratur --- Bellow, Saul, --- DeLillo, Don, --- American fiction --- Historia --- History and criticism

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African American authors --- African American authors. --- American literature --- American literature. --- Amerikansk litteratur --- Cultuurconflicten. --- Diskussion. --- Diskussion. --- Essay. --- Essay. --- Essays. --- Schwarze. --- Zeitfragen. --- Zeitfragen. --- History and criticism --- Afro-amerikanska författare. --- 1900-1999. --- Geschichte 1920-1980. --- Schwarze. --- USA. --- USA.

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American fiction --- American fiction --- American fiction --- American literature --- Amerikansk litteratur --- Förenta staterna --- Förenta staterna --- Realism i litteraturen. --- Realism in literature. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Historia. --- Intellektuellt liv --- Intellektuellt liv --- United States --- United States --- Intellectual life --- Intellectual life

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"A disorder that is only just beginning to find a place in disability studies and activism, autism remains in large part a mystery, giving rise to both fear and fascination. Sonya Loftis's groundbreaking study turns to literary representations of autism or autistic behavior to discover what impact they have had on cultural stereotypes, autistic culture, and the identity politics of autism. Imagining Autism looks at literary characters (and an author or two) widely understood as autistic, ranging from Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Shaw's St. Joan, Steinbeck's Lennie Small, and Harper Lee's Boo Radley to Mark Haddon's boy detective Christopher Boone and Steig Larsson's Lisbeth Salander. The silent figure trapped inside himself, the savant made famous by his other-worldly intellect, the brilliant detective linked to the criminal mastermind by their common neurology--in these works characters on the spectrum become protean symbols, stand-ins for the chaotic forces of inspiration, contagion, and disorder. These powerful fictional depictions, Loftis argues, are also part of the imagined lives of the autistic, sometimes for good, sometimes threatening to undermine self-identity and the activism of the autistic community" --

American drama --- American drama. --- American fiction --- American fiction. --- Amerikansk litteratur --- Autism Spectrum Disorder. --- Autism i litteraturen. --- Autistic Disorder. --- Autistic people in literature. --- Engelsk litteratur --- English drama --- English drama. --- English fiction --- English fiction. --- Identitet (psykologi) i litteraturen. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Medicine in Literature. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Stereotypes (Social psychology). --- Stereotyping. --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Historia. --- European --- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- People with Disabilities. --- 1900-1999. --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) --- Mental stereotypes --- Stereotype (Psychology) --- Stereotyping (Social psychology) --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Rigidity (Psychology)

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Modern black humor represents a rich history of radical innovation stretching back to the antebellum period. 'Laughing Fit to Kill' reveals how black writers, artists, and comedians have used humor across two centuries as a uniquely powerful response to forced migration and enslavement.

American literature --- African American wit and humor --- Black humor. --- Slavery in literature. --- Comic, The, in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Black comedy --- Black humor (Literature) --- Black humor in literature --- Dark humor --- Wit and humor --- Afro-American wit and humor --- Black humor (African American humor) --- Negro wit and humor --- Wit and humor, African American --- American wit and humor --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- African American wit and humor. --- Afro-amerikaner i litteraturen. --- Amerikansk litteratur --- Literatur --- Literatur. --- Schwarzer Humor --- Schwarzer Humor. --- Sklaverei --- Slaveri i litteraturen. --- Svart humor. --- African American authors. --- Afro-amerikanska författare. --- Afroamerikanische Autoren --- Motiv --- Schwarze, ... --- University of South Alabama. --- Schwarze. --- USA. --- History and criticism --- Black humor --- Slavery in literature --- African Americans in literature --- Brown, William Wells --- Criticism and interpretation --- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell --- Reed, Ishmael --- Parks, Suzan-Lori --- Pryor, Richard --- Colescott, Robert --- Walker, Kara --- Enslaved persons in literature