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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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