Academic colonisation.
It's not your world it's mine.
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> Priestley
> Sent: 18 June 2008 11:35
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> Subject: new book - Representing Autism
>
> 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?idPro
duct=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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