TY  - BOOK
AU  - McGrath,James
TI  - Naming adult autism: culture, science, identity 
SN  - 9781783480418
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London, New York, NY
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd
KW  - AUTISM
KW  - ASPERGER SYNDROME
KW  - ADULTS
KW  - DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA
KW  - CULTURE
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - IDENTITY
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index; Introduction : Culture and diagnosis -- 'Outsider Science' and literary exclusion : A reply to denials of autistic imagination -- Metaphors and mirrors : The otherness of adult autism -- Against the 'new classic' adult autism : Narratives of gender, intersectionality and progression -- 'Title' -- Performing the names of autism
N2  - "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 clichés 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." - PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE

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