Representing autism : culture, narrative, fascination

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The work Representing autism : culture, narrative, fascination represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Representing autism : culture, narrative, fascination

Title remainder

culture, narrative, fascination

Statement of responsibility

Stuart Murray

Creator

• Murray, Stuart, 1967-
• Murray, Stuart, 1967-

Author

• Murray, Stuart, 1967-
• Murray, Stuart, 1967-

Subject

• Autism
• Autism in literature
• Developmentally disabled -- Social conditions
• Sociology of disability

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Online access with EBA: JSTOR
• Online access with subscription: Proquest Ebook Central
• Representations
• Representations (Liverpool, England)

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

RC553.A88

LC item number

M87 2008eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography