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Autistic Disturbances: Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe
Julia Miele Rodas 2018Autistic Disturbances pursues these resonances and explores the tensions of language and culture that lead to the classification of some verbal expression as disordered while other, similar expression enjoys prized status as literature. It identifies the most characteristic patterns of autistic expression-repetition, monologue, ejaculation, verbal ordering or list-making, and neologism-and adopts new language to describe and reimagine these categories in aesthetically productive terms. In so doing, the book seeks to redress the place of verbal autistic language, to argue for the value and complexity of autistic ways of speaking, and to invite recognition of an obscured tradition of literary autism at the very center of Anglo-American text culture.
- Series
- Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
- ISBN(s)
- 978-0-472-12410-7 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-05394-0 (paper)
- 978-0-472-07394-8 (hardcover)
- Subject
- Citable Link