Representing Autism: Culture, Narrative, Fascination

by Stuart Murray

Book Overview

From concerns of an 'autism epidemic' to the MMR vaccine crisis, autism is a source of peculiar fascination in the contemporary media. Discussion of the condition has been largely framed within medicine, psychiatry and education but there has been no exploration of its power within representative narrative forms. Representing Autism is the first book to tackle this approach, using contemporary fiction and memoir writing, film, photography, drama and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184631092X
• ISBN13: 9781846310928
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"