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Autism and Representation

Autism and Representation
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  • ISBN-13: 9780415956444
  • ISBN: 0415956447
  • Publication Date: 2007
  • Publisher: Routledge

AUTHOR

Osteen, Mark

SUMMARY

Autism, a neuro-develomental 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 contributors' 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.Osteen, Mark is the author of 'Autism and Representation', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415956444 and ISBN 0415956447.

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