Cultural Readings of the Jedi

Onscreen Media

•Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)

•Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

•Star Wars: Episode VI – The Return of the Jedi (1983)

•Star Wars: Episode I – RThe Phantom Menace (1999)

•Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)

•Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)

•Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) – S3 Ep9, Hunt for Ziro

•Star Wars Rebels (2014) – S2 Ep11, Legacy, S4 Ep15-16, Family Reunion – and Farewell

•Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019)

•The Book of Boba Fett (2021)

Novels

•Hunters: Battle For The Arena by Mark Oshiro

•Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade by Delilah S. Dawson

•Revenge of the Sith (novelization) by Matthew Stover

•Rogue Planet by Greg Bear

•Brotherhood by Mike Chen

•Race to Crashpoint Tower by Daniel José Older

•Midnight Horizon by Daniel José Older

•Cataclysm by Lydia Kang

•Into the Dark by Claudia Gray

•Master and Apprentice by Claudia Gray

•Path of Deceit by Tessa Gratton and Justina Ireland

•The Battle of Jedha by George Mann

•Force Collector by Kevin Shinick

Comics

•The High Republic Adventures (2021) – #1, #2

•Darth Vader (2017) – #19

Publications

•The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

•The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) by Joseph Campbell and Phil Cousineau

•Stories About Stories by Brian Attebery

•NeuroDiversity: The Birth of an Idea by Judy Singer

Web Sources

•Navajo Spider Woman on navajocodetalkers.org

•Spider Woman, the Navajo goddess on native-languages.org

•Spider Grandmother on wikipedia.com

•Maureen Murdock’s Heroine’s Journey Arc on heroinejourneys.com

•Judy Singer on wikipedia.com

•What is autism? on autism.org.uk

•Autism on who.int

•Diagnostic Criteria | Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) on cdc.gov

•The controversy over autism’s most common therapy by Elizabeth Devita-Raeburn on spectrumnews.org

•What is ADHD? on cdc.gov 

•Data and Statistics About ADHD on cdc.gov

•What do “neurodiverse” and “neurodivergent” mean? on washington.edu

•Is Star Wars Cultural Appropriation? by Julia Métraux on daily.jstor.org

•Ram Jomaram on starwars.com

•“the high republic always makes me think about force sensitives and jedi as both allegory and in universe interpretation for neurodivergence…” by @klaudiasays (user currently locked) on twitter.com (thread)

•“Kids need to see neurodivergent kids in books, as main characters…” by @DelilahSDawson on twitter.com (thread)

•Autistic Headcanon: Anakin Skywalker by user transmasclukeskywalker on tumblr.com

•George Lucas - On "The Force" and its Ancient Origins on YouTube.com

•Joseph Campbell and the Myth of the Monomyth | Part 1 by Maggie Mae Fish on YouTube.com

•TikTok Gave Me Autism: The Politics of Self Diagnosis by Alexander Avila on YouTube.com

Wookieepedia Pages

•Sun-dragon

•Sun-dragon (Legends)

•Rieve

•Karr Nuq Sin

•Force-sensitive

•Elders of the Path

•Path of the Open Hand

•Cippa Tarko

•Kaminoan