The Other Side of Autism: Tito Mukhopadhyay’s Short Stories

Authors

  • Ms. Akansha Kaushik Assistant Professor of English, Rajasthan School of Art, Jaipur

Keywords:

Autism, cognitive abilities, mentalizing impairments, developmental disorders

Abstract

Autism is always talked about in terms of weak cognitive abilities, mentalizing impairments, lack of social communication and other developmental disorders. This paper presents the study of the working of a mind with Autism which defies, to an extent, all the preconceived notions about autism. For this purpose, Tito Mukhopadhyay’s short stories, “Impressive People” and “The Calendar” have been taken from his short-story collection The Gold of the Sunbeams and Other Stories. Mukhopadhya has severe Autism but in spite of his low-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder, he shows extraordinary talents and these positive changes are the pain-staking results of his own and his mother’s efforts.  This paper aims at bringing awareness about the deficits as well as possibilities in children with Autism.

Author Biography

Ms. Akansha Kaushik, Assistant Professor of English, Rajasthan School of Art, Jaipur

Akansha Kaushik is an Assistant Professor of English at Rajasthan School of Art, Jaipur. She has presented papers in national and international seminars. She is keenly interested in disability studies and is presently pursuing her Ph. D on Representation of Intellectual Disability in Indian Fiction.

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Published

01.07.2021

How to Cite

Akansha Kaushik. (2021). The Other Side of Autism: Tito Mukhopadhyay’s Short Stories. Journal of Teaching and Research in English Literature, 12(3), 30–34. Retrieved from https://journals.eltai.in/index.php/jtrel/article/view/8

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 3 (2021): July

Section

Research Articles

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