An edition of Representing autism (2008)

Representing autism

culture, narrative, fascination

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An edition of Representing autism (2008)

Representing autism

culture, narrative, fascination

"Representing Autism explores the ways in which autism is depicted in a number of different cultural narratives, from literary fiction, photography and commercial cinema, to the coverage of the vaccination scares and the productions of the multiple online communities in which the condition is discussed. The first book to examine such representations in detail, it looks at contemporary texts and narratives - from Rain Man to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - while also analysing stories that date from before the condition was identified medically in the 1940s in order to chart autism as a condition that has always been part of the human record. Stuart Murray investigates the ideas of individual and community produced by people with autism, both in print and online, to establish a concept of autistic presence that emerges from within a space of cognitive exceptionality. At heart, this book asserts the need to understand and respect the difference that is inherent in autism because of the ways in which it extends our experience of what it means to be human."--Jacket.

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English
Pages
336

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Representing autism: culture, narrative, fascination
2008, Liverpool University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-223) and index.

Published in
Liverpool

Classifications

Library of Congress
RC553, , PN56.M45 M87 2008, RC553.A88 M87 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 336 p. :
Number of pages
336

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25552788M
Internet Archive
representingauti00murr
ISBN 10
1846310911, 184631092X
ISBN 13
9781846310911, 9781846310928
OCLC/WorldCat
177983102

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