I hope so too! Certainly of interest to me.
Damian
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On Mon, 8/1/18, Charlotte Anderson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Subject: Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness
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Date: Monday, 8 January, 2018, 10:37
Dear Subscribers,
We hope you
might find the following title of interest from Duke
University Press
http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/authoring-autism
Authoring
Autism
On Rhetoric and
Neurological Queerness
Melanie Yergeau
"With philosophical and
rhetorical acuity and a large dose of humor, Melanie Yergeau
interweaves autism research into other areas of thought,
providing new ways of thinking about rhetoric, queerness,
and neurology.
This is without doubt the most thoroughgoing, rigorous, and
creative work on authoring autism I have read. As a reader I
have been changed, my attention drawn to the necessity to
attend not only to the style, and to writing, but to the
terms according to which
some of us are given access to these voices we too often
take for granted."– Erin Manning, author of
The Minor Gesture
"With incandescent wit and defiant
exuberance, Melanie Yergeau employs her rhetorical scalpel
to dismantle the clinical assumptions and cultural
stereotypes that have been used to deny, dismiss, and
obscure the basic
humanity of autistic people for generations. This is not
just a landmark book; it's a book that opens up a whole
terrain of discourse informed by the insights of queer
theory and the disability rights movement."– Steve
Silberman, author of
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of
Neurodiversity
In Authoring Autism Melanie
Yergeau defines neurodivergence as an
identity—neuroqueerness—rather than an impairment. Using
a queer theory framework, Yergeau notes the stereotypes that
deny autistic people their
humanity and the chance to define themselves while also
challenging cognitive studies scholarship and its
reification of the neurological passivity of autistics. She
also critiques early intensive behavioral
interventions—which have much in common with gay
conversion therapy—and questions the ableist privileging
of intentionality and diplomacy in rhetorical traditions.
Using storying as her method, she presents an alternative
view of autistic rhetoricity by foregrounding the cunning
rhetorical abilities of autistics
and by framing autism as a narrative condition wherein
autistics are the best-equipped people to define their
experience. Contending that autism represents a queer way of
being that simultaneously embraces and rejects the
rhetorical, Yergeau shows how autistic
people queer the lines of rhetoric, humanity, and agency.
In so doing, she demonstrates how an autistic rhetoric
requires the reconceptualization of rhetoric’s very
essence.
Melanie Yergeau is Assistant Professor
of English Language and Literature at the University of
Michigan.
Duke
University Press | Thought in the Act | January 2018 | 312pp
| 10 illustrations | 9780822370208 | Paperback |
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