ABSTRACT The proliferation of life writings written by people on the autism spectrum is a relatively recent phenomenon and has quickly become the touchstone for autism culture. Cultural and literary studies have gradually acknowledged these autism narratives. Is it possible to approach them as a new subgenre within life writing or disability narratives, and if so, what are its distinctive features and what could this labelling possibly imply? Constructing corpora is not an exclusively formalistic definitional act or tool, but also a significant method in which to explore the functioning and cultural value of personal narratives. In order to do justice to this diverse corpus of autism self-narratives, three perspectives and theoretical frames are taken into account: (1) a more traditional or textual genre perspective, (2) a pragmatic genre perspective, and (3) a socio-rhetorical genre perspective. As a case study, two extreme poles on the autie-biography-spectrum are analysed and compared: the Australian author, Donna Williams, and the Belgian author, Schipper Landschip. The two cases testify to the diversity, potentiality and dynamics of an emerging corpus.

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“自传”：自闭症视角下的人生写作体裁和策略

摘要人们在自闭症谱系中撰写的生活著作的泛滥是一种相对较新的现象，已迅速成为自闭症文化的试金石。文化和文学研究逐渐认识到这些自闭症的叙述。是否可以将它们作为生活写作或残疾叙事中的一个新的子流派，如果是的话，其独特之处是什么？这个标签可能暗示什么？语料库的构建不是排他性的形式化定义行为或工具，而是探索个人叙事功能和文化价值的重要方法。为了公正地对待自闭症自我叙事的这种多样化语料，我们考虑了以下三种观点和理论框架：（1）一种更为传统或文本体裁的观点，（2）务实的体裁观点，和（3）社会修辞的体裁观点。作为案例研究，分析和比较了自传自传谱中的两个极端：澳大利亚作者Donna Williams和比利时作者Schipper Landschip。这两个案例证明了新兴语料库的多样性，潜力和动态。