Take me up,I want to go: Captivity,disorientation and affect in the neurosphere |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTCaptivity narratives have been a core American genre for centuries. This paper suggests that some American captivity narratives are opening into emergent attempts to articulate social feeling at a moment of precarity. I treat captivity here not just as a narrative, genre or trope but also as an affect. I explore how neurodivergent young people evoke disorientation and captivity on Tumblr as an expression of identity. I show how the bloggers share a feeling with UFO abduction narratives in creating an atmosphere of difference. |
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Keywords: | Tumblr captivity neruodivergent |
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