Autism and Representation

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ISBN: 9780415956444 | 0415956447
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/27/2007

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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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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Autism and Representation: A Comprehensive Introduction	p. 1
Clinical Constructions	p. 49
No Search, No Subject? Autism and the American Conversion Narrative	p. 51
Bruno Bettelheim, Autism, and the Rhetoric of Scientific Authority	p. 65
Constructing Autism: A Brief Genealogy	p. 78
Autistry	p. 97
Autism and Modernism: A Genealogical Exploration	p. 99
Autism and the Imagination	p. 117
Fractioned Idiom: Metonymy and the Language of Autism	p. 133
Imagination and the Awareness of Self in Autistic Spectrum Poets	p. 145
Human, but More So: What the Autistic Brain Tells Us about the Process of Narrative	p. 166
Autist Biography	p. 181
Crossing Over: Writing the Autistic Memoir	p. 183
(M)Othering and Autism: Maternal Rhetorics of Self-Revision	p. 197
Urinetown: A Chronicle of the Potty Wars	p. 212
Popular Representations	p. 227
Recognizing Jake: Contending with Formulaic and Spectacularized Representations of Autism in Film	p. 229
Hollywood and the Fascination of Autism	p. 244
Film as a Vehicle for Raising Consciousness among Autistic Peers	p. 256
Alterity and Autism: Mark Haddon's Curious Incident in the Neurological Spectrum	p. 271
Mark Haddon's Popularity and Other Curious Incidents in My Life as an Autistic	p. 289
Conclusion: Toward an Empathetic Scholarship	p. 297
Contributors	p. 303
Index	p. 307
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