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Publisher:
Liverpool University Press
Online publication date:
June 2015
Print publication year:
2008
Online ISBN:
9781846314667
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5949/UPO9781846314667
Subjects:
Literature, Literary Theory, History, History of Medicine
Series:
Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society
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Book description

From concerns of an 'autism epidemic' to the MMR vaccine crisis, autism is a source of peculiar fascination in the contemporary media. Discussion of the condition has been largely framed within medicine, psychiatry and education but there has been no exploration of its power within representative narrative forms. Representing Autism is the first book to tackle this approach, using contemporary fiction and memoir writing, film, photography, drama and documentary together with older texts to set the contemporary fascination with autism in context. Representing Autism analyses and evaluates the place of autism within contemporary culture and at the same time examines the ideas of individual and community produced by people with autism themselves to establish the ideas of autistic presence that emerge from within a space of cognitive exceptionality. Central to the book is a sense of the legitimacy of autistic presence as a way by which we might more fully articulate what it means to be human.

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"Thought-provoking, deeply empathetic and engaging - I would recommend Murray's book to parents of those on the autism spectrum, educational and clinical practitioners, scientists and academics, film-makers and writers, as well as students and members of the public wanting to know more about autism"

Emma Williams Source: Times Higher Education

"This is a timely, powerful and important book"

Source: Times Literary Supplement

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