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100 1 $aMurray, Stuart,$d1967-
245 10 $aRepresenting autism :$bculture, narrative, fascination /$cStuart Murray.
260 $aLiverpool :$bLiverpool University Press,$c2008.
300 $axviii, 236 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aRepresentations
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-223) and index.
505 0 $aAutism and narrative -- Presences : autistic difference -- Idiots and savants -- Witnessing -- Boys and girls, men and women -- In our time : families and sentiments -- Causing/curing/caring.
520 1 $a"Representing Autism explores the ways in which autism is depicted in a number of different cultural narratives, from literary fiction, photography and commercial cinema, to the coverage of the vaccination scares and the productions of the multiple online communities in which the condition is discussed. The first book to examine such representations in detail, it looks at contemporary texts and narratives - from Rain Man to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - while also analysing stories that date from before the condition was identified medically in the 1940s in order to chart autism as a condition that has always been part of the human record. Stuart Murray investigates the ideas of individual and community produced by people with autism, both in print and online, to establish a concept of autistic presence that emerges from within a space of cognitive exceptionality. At heart, this book asserts the need to understand and respect the difference that is inherent in autism because of the ways in which it extends our experience of what it means to be human."--Jacket.
650 0 $aAutism$xPublic opinion.
650 0 $aDevelopmentally disabled$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aSociology of disability.
650 12 $aAutistic Disorder.
650 22 $aCulture.
830 0 $aRepresentations (Liverpool, England)
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