Representing autism [[electronic resource] ] : culture, narrative, fascination / / Stuart Murray

• Autore: Murray Stuart <1967->
• Pubblicazione: Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.461
• Soggetto topico: Autism; Autism in literature; Developmentally disabled - Social conditions; Sociology of disability
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Autism and narrative -- Presences : autistic difference -- Idiots and savants -- Witnessing -- Boys and girls, men and women -- In our time : families and sentiments -- Causing/curing/caring.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 and education but there has been no exploration of its power within representative narrative forms. This book tackles this approach, using contemporary fiction and memoir writing, film, photography, drama and documentary together with older texts to set the contemporary fascination with autism in context. 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Representing autism
• ISBN: 1-84631-091-1; 1-84631-466-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455267503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Representations (Liverpool, England)