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Naming adult autism : culture, science, identity /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Rowman & Littlefield International,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Naming Adult Autism; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Culture and diagnosis; An introduction to five chapters; An introduction to autism, interpellation and identity; Autism diagnostic criteria: Social communication and interaction; Autism diagnostic criteria: Restricted and repetitive patterns; 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: The naming of autism in Douglas Coupland's Microserfs
- Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake: Autism and literary exclusionLimitations and inaccuracies in Simon Baron-Cohen's 'Minds Wired for Science' narrative; Bias in the Adult Autism-Spectrum Quotient test (2001): History and legacy; Re-membering autistic imagination: Asperger, Wing and 'Harro L.'; Silberman's Neurotribes: Science, science fiction and autism; Word persons of the autistic world unite: Critical responses to Atwood's Oryx and Crake; Conclusion: The sySTEMizing focus and its implications for autistic diversity; 2 Metaphors and mirrors: The otherness of adult autism
- Picking up the mirror: Enfreaking normalcyThe infantilizing of adult autism in diagnostic observations; Autism and disorder: Foucault, confinement and cultural fear; The screen as mirror: Ricky Gervais's The Office (UK) and the neurotypical gaze; Post-Curious: Adult autism as cultural spectacle in Big Bang Theory and The Accountant; Conjecturing otherness: Autism, metaphor and metonymy; Lost in the mirror metaphor: Challenging the myth of autistic narcissism; The broken metaphor: 'Mirror neuron' theory and the normative stare
- Otherizing autism parents: Refrigerator psychiatrists and their 21st-century spectresThe Who's Tommy (1969) and the cultural onset of metaphorical autism; Autism and the person: Les Murray's 'It Allows a Portrait in Line scan at Fifteen'; Normativity through the looking-glass: Joanne Limburg's The Autistic Alice (2017); Otherness, autism and acceptance; 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 testosteroneFictions of the new classic autism; Bron/Broen: Neurodiversity, The Bridge and autistic' adherence to rules'; Kay Mellor's The Syndicate (2015): Class, criminality, race and adult autism; Clare Morrall's The Language of Others: Autism, womanhood and intersectionality; Family and phenotype: Reading autism in Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings (2013); Conclusion: Cultural disability; 4 'Title'; 5 Performing the names of autism; Naming the self autistic