Les représentations qui sortent de la norme : étude du personnage porteur de troubles autistiques en littérature de jeunesse francophone contemporaine

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Tilleuil, Jean-Louis

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Master [120] en langues et lettres françaises et romanes, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée: sciences et métiers du livre (édition, librairie, bibliothèque)

Abstract

enThis dissertation analyzes the representations of the character with autistic disorders in contemporary French-language youth literature to determine whether these representations are closer to the reality of the disability or whether, on the contrary, they reproduce the stereotypes about people with disabilities conveyed in society. This analysis is conducted on four French-language children’s albums published between 2016 and 2022 (Oscar et ses super-pouvoirs, L’enfant qui vivait dans un mur, Laurent, c’est moi et Des oiseaux plein la tête) which are studied through three different angles of approach: a thematic analysis, a story analysis and a narrative analysis. This case study shows that these albums remain in some ways in the sense of distancing the reader from the autistic character but that they evolve in other ways towards a positioning of the reader closer to the disability. Thus, the result of this study tends to reveal a contemporary French-language youth literature which would be in the process of transmitting a representation of the character carrying autistic disorders which privileges the person rather than his handicap: from the representation of "the handicapped being", this literature would slip slowly towards the representation of "the being who has a handicap".