Hi
Stuart Murray (Leeds University, School of English) publishes his new
book this month - 'Representing Autism: culture, narrative,
fascination', which explores representations of autism in literature and
film and also draws on his experience as a parent.
http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3719
ISBN 9781846310928
The following synopsis is provided by the publisher...
Synopsis
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, psychology and education but extraordinarily 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, Hollywood and independent film,
contemporary photography, television drama and documentary, print and
radio, together with older texts, Stuart Murray sets the contemporary
fascination with autism in context. The key contention of the book is
that, for all of the coverage of the condition, autism rarely emerges
from the various images it produces as a way of being in the world that
is understood. Rather it frequently occupies a succession of narrative
spaces (especially in the most commercial manifestations) that produce
it as a source of fascination and of enigmatic wonder.
Representing Autism analyses and evaluates the place of autism within
contemporary society and culture and at the same time examines the ideas
of individual and community produced by people with autism themselves,
both in print and online, 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.
Best wishes
Mark
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