신경 장애우는 말할 수 있는가?:한밥중에 개에게 일어난 의문의 사건의 자폐의 재현과 서사의 틈새

Can the Neurologically isabled Speak :The Representation of Autism and Its Interstices in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Implying Gayatri Spivak’s well known question, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” this study explores the possibility of representation of the autistic as a speaking subject through the analysis of British writer, Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Despite the gap between the author’s idea of his protagonist and his actual representation in the novel, this study explains the contributions of this novel to the understanding of autistics and to autism in general. The autistic spectrum presented through the protagonist in this novel turns out to be flexible and thus deconstructs the rigid boundary of the disabled and the normal people. Another interest of this paper is to examine the ways in which the novel’s choice of the genre of detective novel and the autistic protagonist’s narrative in which sensory images replace linguistic level in various ways defamiliarize and challenge the existing language and perspectives of the readers.