Larry...with all due respect, how about reading the book before making
the judgement? Or at least doing enough research to find out what the
authors' personal experience is.
Best wishes
Mark
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From: Larry Arnold [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 18 June 2008 13:15
To: Mark Priestley; [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: new book - Representing Autism
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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