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Autism and representation [...
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 explor
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monografia Rebiun33875575 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun33875575 m o d | cr -n--------- 070419s2007 nyu ob 001 0 eng d 2007015997 1-135-91149-5 1-281-06354-1 9786611063542 0-203-93508-X UAM 991008261195304211 CBUC 991000722644306712 MiAaPQ MiAaPQ MiAaPQ eng 362.196/85882 809.933561 Autism and representation electronic resource] edited by Mark Osteen New York Routledge 2007 New York New York Routledge 1 online resource (322 p.) 1 online resource (322 p.) Text txt computer c online resource cr Routledge research in cultural and media studies Description based upon print version of record Includes bibliographical references and index Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Autism and Representation: A Comprehensive Introduction; Part I: Clinical Constructions; 1 No search, No subject?: Autism and the American Conversion Narrative; 2 Bruno Bettelheim, Autism, and the Rhetoric of scientific Authority; 3 Constructing Autism: A Brief Genealogy; Part II: Autistry; 4 Autism and Modernism: A Genealogical Exploration; 5 Autism and the Imagination; 6 Fractioned Idiom: Metonymy and the Language of Autism; 7 Imagination and the Awareness of self in Autistic spectrum Poets 8 human, but More so: What the Autistic Brain Tells Us about the Process of NarrativePart III: Autist Biography; 9 Crossing Over: Writing the Autistic Memoir; 10 (M)Othering and Autism: Maternal Rhetorics of Self-Revision; 11 urinetown: A Chronicle of the Potty Wars; Part IV: Popular Representations; 12 Recognizing Jake: Contending with Formulaic and Spectacularized Representations of Autism in Film; 13 hollywood and the Fascination of Autism; 14 Film as a vehicle for Raising Consciousness among Autistic Peers 15 Alterity and Autism: Mark Haddon's Curious Incident in the Neurological Spectrum16 Mark haddon's Popularity and Other Curious Incidents in My life as an Autistic; Conclusion: Toward an Empathetic Scholarship; Contributors; Index 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 explor English Autism Autism in literature Osteen, Mark 0-415-80627-5 0-415-95644-7 Routledge research in cultural and media studies