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Naming Adult Autism
Culture, Science, Identity|
36,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Rowman & Littlefield International |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 15.08.2017 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781783480425 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 208 |
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<span>Naming Adult Autism </span>
<span>is one of the first critiques of cultural and medical narratives of Autism to be authored by an adult diagnosed with this condition. <br><br>Autism is a ‘social disorder’, defined by interactions and lifestyle. Yet, the expectations of normalcy against which Autism is defined have too rarely been questioned. This book demonstrates the value of the Humanities towards developing fuller understandings of Autistic adulthood, adapting theory from Adorno, Foucault and Butler.<br><br>The chapters expose serious scientific limitations of medical assumptions that Autistic people are gifted at maths but indifferent to fiction. After interrogating such clichés in literature, cinema and television, James McGrath also explores more radical depictions of Autism via novels by Douglas Coupland, Margaret Atwood, Clare Morrall and Meg Wolitzer, plus poems by Les Murray and Joanne Limburg. <br><br>Follow this link to see </span>
<span>James McGrath in conversation with Kelly-Anne Watson at Leeds Beckett University: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQOotRZRzv4"><span>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQOotRZRzv4</span></a></span>
<span><br><br>Follow this link to view a content breakdown of the above interview: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/36406389/Naming_Adult_Autism_A_Conversation_winter_2017_"><span>https://www.academia.edu/36406389/Naming_Adult_Autism_A_Conversation_winter_2017_</span></a></span>
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<span>Follow this link to read a 'Seeking Sara' blog interview with James: <a href="https://seekingsara174.wordpress.com/2018/08/19/639/"><span>https://seekingsara174.wordpress.com/2018/08/19/639/</span></a></span>
<span>is one of the first critiques of cultural and medical narratives of Autism to be authored by an adult diagnosed with this condition. <br><br>Autism is a ‘social disorder’, defined by interactions and lifestyle. Yet, the expectations of normalcy against which Autism is defined have too rarely been questioned. This book demonstrates the value of the Humanities towards developing fuller understandings of Autistic adulthood, adapting theory from Adorno, Foucault and Butler.<br><br>The chapters expose serious scientific limitations of medical assumptions that Autistic people are gifted at maths but indifferent to fiction. After interrogating such clichés in literature, cinema and television, James McGrath also explores more radical depictions of Autism via novels by Douglas Coupland, Margaret Atwood, Clare Morrall and Meg Wolitzer, plus poems by Les Murray and Joanne Limburg. <br><br>Follow this link to see </span>
<span>James McGrath in conversation with Kelly-Anne Watson at Leeds Beckett University: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQOotRZRzv4"><span>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQOotRZRzv4</span></a></span>
<span><br><br>Follow this link to view a content breakdown of the above interview: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/36406389/Naming_Adult_Autism_A_Conversation_winter_2017_"><span>https://www.academia.edu/36406389/Naming_Adult_Autism_A_Conversation_winter_2017_</span></a></span>
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<span>Follow this link to read a 'Seeking Sara' blog interview with James: <a href="https://seekingsara174.wordpress.com/2018/08/19/639/"><span>https://seekingsara174.wordpress.com/2018/08/19/639/</span></a></span>
<span><span>Explores representations of ‘high-functioning’ adult autism in autobiographical, scientific and fictional texts to demonstrate the value of Cultural Studies towards understanding autism as a subjective condition and social category.</span></span>
<span><span>Introduction/ 1. Outsider Science and Literary Exclusion: A Reply to Denials of Autistic Imagination: Childhood Autism and the Psychiatric Imagination/Autism and the Machine/ Computer Coding and/as Literature: Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs/ Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake: Autism and Literary Exclusion/ Inaccuracies in Baron-Cohen’s “Minds Wired for Science” Narrative/ Bias in the Adult Autism-Spectrum Quotient Test (2001)/ Re-membering Autistic Imagination: Asperger, Wing, and Harro L./ Silberman’s Neurotribes: Science, Science Fiction and Autism/ Autistic Responses to Atwood’s Oryx and Crake/ The SySTEMizing Focus and its Implications for Autistic Diversity/ 2. Metaphors and Mirrors: The Otherness of Adult Autism/ Picking Up The Mirror: Enfreaking Normalcy/ Infantilizing Adult Autism in Diagnostic Observations/ Autism and Disorder: Foucault, Confinement and Cultural Fear/ The Screen as Mirror: The Office (UK) and the Neurotypical Gaze/ Post-Curious: Adult Autism as Cultural Spectacle in Big Bang Theory and The Accountant/ Autism, Metaphor and Metonymy/ Challenging the Myth of Autistic Narcissism/ ‘Mirror Neuron’ Theory and the Normative Stare/ Otherizing Autism Parents: Refrigerator Psychiatrists and their 21st-century Spectres/ The Who’s Tommy (1969) and the Cultural Onset of Metaphorical Autism/ Autism and the Person: Les Murray’s ‘It Allows A Portrait In Linescan At Fifteen’/ Normativity Through the Looking-Glass: Joanne Limburg’s The Autistic Alice/ 3. Against the ‘New Classic’ Adult Autism: Narratives of Gender, Intersectionality and Progression/ Patriarchy and Autism: The Cambridge Autism Research Centre and the ‘Extreme Male Brain’/ The Extreme Male Gaze: Scientific ‘Evidence’ on Autism and Testosterone/ Fictions of the ‘New Classic’ Autism/ Neurodiversity, The Bridge and Autistic ‘Adherence to Rules’/ Kay Mellor’s The Syndicate: Class, Criminality, Race and Adult Autism/ Clare Morrall’s The Language of Others (2008): Intersectionality, Autism and Womanhood/ Family and Phenotype: Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings/ Cultural Disability/ 4. ‘Title’ [sic]/ 5. Performing the Names of Autism/ Naming the Self Autistic/ Anger, Faith, and the Realization of Asperger Syndrome: Les Murray’s ‘The Tune On Your Mind’/ The Politics of a Name: Aspies, DSM-5 and the Psychiatric Retraction of Asperger Syndrome/ Autism, Performativity and Performance/ Autistic Criticism 1: Revisiting E. M. Forster’s Howards End/ Autistic Criticism 2: Neurodiverse Meeting Points in ‘Mad World'/ Bibliography/ Index</span></span>
<span><span>Dr James McGrath is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Cultural Studies at Leeds Beckett University. His poems appear in various literary magazines. He has also published on popular music, particularly The Beatles and Joy Division</span></span>
<span><span>Stuart Murray, </span><span>Representing Autism: Culture, Narrative, Fascination</span><span>, Liverpool UP, 2008, £16.95 </span></span>
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<span><span>Stuart Murray, </span><span>Autism: Integrating Science and Culture</span><span>, Routledge, 2012, £20.99</span></span>
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<span><span>This book applauds Murray’s work in bridging Cultural Studies and Autism Studies. </span><span>The Naming of Adult Autism</span><span> differs from Murray’s work by focusing specifically on ‘high-functioning’ autism, with primary reference to adult identities. This approach also differs in drawing mainly from broader Cultural Theory, ahead of Disability Theory. </span></span>
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<span><span>Majia Holmer Nadisan, </span><span>Constructing Autism: Unravelling the ‘Truth’ and Understanding the Social</span><span>, Routledge, 2005, £29.99 </span></span>
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<span><span>Nadesan valuably stresses the historical subjectivity of autism. This book seeks to advance from this in emphasising the micro- and macro-subjectivity of HFA specifically, and with specific reference to adult autism. </span></span>
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<span><span>Mark Osteen (ed) </span><span>Autism and Representation</span><span>, Routledge, 2009, £28.00 </span></span>
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<span><span>This pioneering, interdisciplinary collection surveys representations of autism from the perspective of HFA adults and will frequently be cited in my book. However, as an edited collection, it does not attempt to present cohesive central arguments.</span></span>
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<span><span>Sami Timimi, Neil Gardner, Brian McCabe, </span><span>The Myth of Autism: Medicalising Men’s and Boys’ Social and Emotional Competence,</span><span> Palgrave, 2010, £20.99</span></span>
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<span><span>This highly critical take on concepts of autism highlights the condition’s medical subjectivity but problematically risks trivialising autistic identity and its diversity in the process. I will counter this book’s premises while also focusing substantially on narratives of female adult autism. </span></span>
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<span><span>Laura Schreibman, </span><span>The Science and Fiction of Autism</span><span>, Harvard UP, 2007, £14.95.</span></span>
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<span><span>This medically-based study, while informative and sometimes, questioning, does not attempt interdisciplinary approaches.</span></span>
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<span></span>
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<span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Stuart Murray, </span><span>Autism: Integrating Science and Culture</span><span>, Routledge, 2012, £20.99</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>This book applauds Murray’s work in bridging Cultural Studies and Autism Studies. </span><span>The Naming of Adult Autism</span><span> differs from Murray’s work by focusing specifically on ‘high-functioning’ autism, with primary reference to adult identities. This approach also differs in drawing mainly from broader Cultural Theory, ahead of Disability Theory. </span></span>
<br>
<span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Majia Holmer Nadisan, </span><span>Constructing Autism: Unravelling the ‘Truth’ and Understanding the Social</span><span>, Routledge, 2005, £29.99 </span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Nadesan valuably stresses the historical subjectivity of autism. This book seeks to advance from this in emphasising the micro- and macro-subjectivity of HFA specifically, and with specific reference to adult autism. </span></span>
<br>
<span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Mark Osteen (ed) </span><span>Autism and Representation</span><span>, Routledge, 2009, £28.00 </span></span>
<br>
<span><span>This pioneering, interdisciplinary collection surveys representations of autism from the perspective of HFA adults and will frequently be cited in my book. However, as an edited collection, it does not attempt to present cohesive central arguments.</span></span>
<br>
<span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Sami Timimi, Neil Gardner, Brian McCabe, </span><span>The Myth of Autism: Medicalising Men’s and Boys’ Social and Emotional Competence,</span><span> Palgrave, 2010, £20.99</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>This highly critical take on concepts of autism highlights the condition’s medical subjectivity but problematically risks trivialising autistic identity and its diversity in the process. I will counter this book’s premises while also focusing substantially on narratives of female adult autism. </span></span>
<br>
<span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Laura Schreibman, </span><span>The Science and Fiction of Autism</span><span>, Harvard UP, 2007, £14.95.</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>This medically-based study, while informative and sometimes, questioning, does not attempt interdisciplinary approaches.</span></span>
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<span></span>
<span>4/4/19, The Conversation: features an article written by the author about his book. Link: https://theconversation.com/not-all-autistic-people-are-good-at-maths-and-science-despite-the-stereotypes-114128. </span>
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