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Autism & Representation
by Mark (edt) Osteen
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on 8-18-2010
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ISBN Number: 9780415956444
Written by: Osteen, Mark (edt)
Published by: Routledge
Editor: Osteen, Mark
Written by: Osteen, Mark
Filed Under: General
Filed Under: Health Care Delivery
Filed Under: Autism
Filed Under: Autism in literature
Copyright: 2007
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Date of Publication: October 2007
Cover Type: Hardcover
Written in: English
Number of Pages: 313
Book Size: 9.21x6.32x1.01 in. 1.44 lbs.
Autism, a neuro-developmental disability, has received wide but often sensationalistic treatment in the popular media. A great deal of clinical and medical research has been devoted to autism, but the traditional humanities disciplines and the new field of Disability Studies have yet to explore it. This volume, the first scholarly book on autism in the humanities, brings scholars from several disciplines together with adults on the autism spectrum to investigate the diverse ways that autism has been represented in novels, poems, autobiographies, films, and clinical discourses, and to explore the connections and demarcations between autistic and neurotypical creativity. Using an empathetic scholarship that unites professional rigor with experiential knowledge derived from the contributorsa (TM) lives with or as autistic people, the essays address such questions as: In what novel forms does autistic creativity appear, and what unusual strengths does it possess? How do autistic representations--whether by or about autistic people--revise conventional ideas of cognition, creativity, language, (dis)ability and sociability? This timely and important collection breaks new ground in literary and film criticism, aesthetics, psychology, and Disability Studies. Synopsis: This volume, the first scholarly book on autism and the humanities, brings scholars from several different disciplines together with adults on the autism spectrum to investigate the diverse ways that autism has been represented in novels, poems, autobiographies, films and clinical discourses, and to explore the connections and demarcations between autistic and normal creative expression.
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