Naming Adult Autism: Culture, Science, Identity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781783480401)

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 clich駸 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/

Author: James McGrath
ISBN-10: 1783480408
ISBN-13: 9781783480401
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2017
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d