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ISBN 10: 0415956447 
ISBN 13: 9780415956444
Author: Mark Osteen

Autism, a neuro-developmental disability, has received wide but often sensationalistic treatment in the popular media. A great deal of clinical and medical research has been devoted to autism, but the traditional humanities disciplines and the new field of Disability Studies have yet to explore it. This volume, the first scholarly book on autism in the humanities, brings scholars from several disciplines together with adults on the autism spectrum to investigate the diverse ways that autism has been represented in novels, poems, autobiographies, films, and clinical discourses, and to explore the connections and demarcations between autistic and "neurotypical" creativity. Using an empathetic scholarship that unites professional rigor with experiential knowledge derived from the contributors’ lives with or as autistic people, the essays address such questions as: In what novel forms does autistic creativity appear, and what unusual strengths does it possess? How do autistic representations--whether by or about autistic people--revise conventional ideas of cognition, creativity, language, (dis)ability and sociability? This timely and important collection breaks new ground in literary and film criticism, aesthetics, psychology, and Disability Studies.

Autism and Representation 1st Table of contents:

Part I Clinical Constructions
1 No Search, No Subject?
WORKS CITED
2 Bruno Bettelheim, Autism, and the Rhetoric of Scientific Authority
CONTEXT, ETHOS, AUDIENCE
ANALYZING BETTELHEIM’S RHETORICAL STRATEGIES
NOTES
WORKS CITED
3 Constructing Autism
CONSTRUCTING AUTISM IN THE MEDICAL LITERATURE
CONSTRUCTING AUTISM: A BRIEF GENEALOGY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
NOTES
WORKS CITED
Part II Autistry
4 Autism and Modernism
THE CREATION OF AUTISM
MODERN IDENTITIES AND AUTISTIC IDENTITIES
THE MODERN PROTAGONIST
AUTISM IMAGERY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
WORKS CITED
5 Autism and the Imagination
A UNIFYING INSTINCT: ROMANTIC NOTIONS OF THE IMAGINATION
CENTRAL COHERENCE, THEORY OF MIND, AND THE IMAGINATION
FROM DEFICITS TO STYLES OF KNOWING
WORKS CITED
6 Fractioned Idiom
NOTES
WORKS CITED
7 Imagination and the Awareness of Self in Autistic Spectrum Poets*
INTRODUCTION
PROSE AND POETRY AS A ROUTE TO THE AUTISTIC MIND
IMAGINATION AND AWARENESS OF SELF: DEFINITIONS
IMAGINATION AND AWARENESS OF SELF IN AUTISM: MEDICO-SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES
THE CONUNDRUM OF AUTISTIC POETRY
A SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF AUTISTIC SPECTRUM POETRY
DOES AUTISTIC POETRY HAVE A UNIFIED STYLE?
IS AUTISTIC POETRY DOMINATED BY CONVENTIONAL LITERARY DEVICES?
DO AUTISTIC POETS EMPLOY IMAGINATIVE LANGUAGE?
DO AUTISTIC POETS WRITE ABOUT THE SELF?
IS AUTISTIC POETRY A DISTINCT GENRE?
POETS’ REFLECTIONS ON THEIR WORK
EARLY BACKGROUND INFLUENCES AND THE ROLE OF TEACHING
INSPIRATION
THE INFLUENCE OF OTHER POETS
POETRY AS SELF-EXPRESSION AND COMMUNICATION
CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
WORKS CITED
Footnotes
8 Human, but More So
NARRATIVE AS DEFENSE AGAINST DISORDER
PHYSIOLOGICAL CAUSES OF NARRATIVE IMPAIRMENT IN AUTISM
PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF NARRATIVE IMPAIRMENT
THE NARRATIVE BASIS OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
VIRTUE OF NECESSITY IN AUTISTIC COGNITIVE SKILLS
AUTISM AND SELF-CONSCIOUS NARRATIVE
WORKS CITED
Part III Autist Biography
9 Crossing Over
WORKS CITED
10 (M)Othering and Autism
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
WORKS CITED
11 Urinetown
BASIC TRAINING
GOING TO BATTLE
LIQUID LANGUAGE
NOTES
WORKS CITED
Part IV Popular Representations
12 Recognizing Jake
THE DEFINITIONAL POWER OF FILM
THE AUTISTIC FORMULA
Introduce a Protagonist Who Is Not Autistic
Introduce a Character Identifiable as Autistic
Make the Autistic Character Cute, Endearing, Innocent, or Attractively Quirky
Establish the Autistic Character’s Vulnerability by Depicting Reliance on Parents or Caregivers
Endow the Autistic Character With Savant Skills or Superhuman Powers
Separate the Autistic Character from the Parents or Caregivers
Endanger the Autistic Character
Allow the Hero to Save and/or Bond With the Autistic Character, Perhaps Even Replacing the Parent
AUTISM SPECTACULARIZED
PARENTAL ABSENCE
RECONCILING PORTRAYALS OF AUTISM
WORKS CITED
13 Hollywood and the Fascination of Autism
NOTES
WORKS CITED
14 Film as a Vehicle for Raising Consciousness among Autistic Peers
INTRODUCTION
HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS
THE GOALS OF THE FILM SERIES, AND THE FILMS CHOSEN
Film #1:32 Short Films About Glenn Gould
Film #2: Smoke Signals
Film #3: Breaking the Code
Film #4: The Secret of Roan Inish
PARTING THOUGHTS
NOTES
WORKS CITED
15 Alterity and Autism
PRIME NUMBERS
ASPERGER’S AND NARRATIVE
EVOLUTIONARY NEUROLOGY, THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM, AND LANGUAGE
THE ASPERGER’S DETECTIVE, GENRE, AND “SOCIAL AUTISM”
“… A LOUD WAILING NOISE, LIKE AN ANIMAL ON A NATURE PROGRAM…”
ALTERITY IS RELATIVE
NOTES
WORKS CITED
16 Mark Haddon’s Popularity and Other Curious Incidents in My Life as an Autistic
NOTES
WORKS CITED
Conclusion
AUTISMS
BANISHING THE SHADE OF BETTELHEIM
AVERSION TO CONVERSION
NORMALLY AUTISTIC
RADIANCE IN DAILINESS
EMPATHETIC SCHOLARSHIP
AUTISM AND THE HUMANITIES
WORKS CITED
Contributors
Index

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