Date of Award

Spring 2023

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

English

First Advisor

Susannah Mintz

Second Advisor

Paul Benzon

Abstract

In Anand Prahlad's 2017 memoir The Secret Life of a Black Aspie, he describes his upbringing as a Black child growing up on a plantation in Virginia. Through his claims to speak to the spirits of enslaved people and his unique perception of chronology, Prahlad creates a memoir that works as both a neo-slave narrative and a first-person memoir of slavery, and this only becomes possible through his necessary dismissal of neurotypical and Western ideals of how time, memory, and place work.

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