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Naming Adult Autism - Culture, Science, Identity (Hardcover)
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Naming Adult Autism - Culture, Science, Identity (Hardcover)
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Naming Adult Autism is one of the first critiques of cultural and
medical narratives of Autism to be authored by an adult diagnosed
with this condition. 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. The chapters expose
serious scientific limitations of medical assumptions that Autistic
people are gifted at maths but indifferent to fiction. After
interrogating such cliches 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. Follow this
link to see James McGrath in conversation with Kelly-Anne Watson at
Leeds Beckett University:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQOotRZRzv4 Follow this link to
view a content breakdown of the above interview:
https://www.academia.edu/36406389/Naming_Adult_Autism_A_Conversation_winter_2017_
Follow this link to read a 'Seeking Sara' blog interview with
James: https://seekingsara174.wordpress.com/2018/08/19/639/
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