Authoring Autism: on rhetoric and neurological queerness - Couverture souple

Yergeau, M. Remi

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822370204 ISBN 13 : 9780822370208

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2018

Synopsis

In Authoring Autism M. Remi Yergeau defines neurodivergence as an identity-neuroqueerness-rather than an impairment. Using a queer theory framework, Yergeau notes the stereotypes that deny autistic people their humanity and the chance to define themselves while also challenging cognitive studies scholarship and its reification of the neurological passivity of autistics. They also critique early intensive behavioral interventions-which have much in common with gay conversion therapy-and questions the ableist privileging of intentionality and diplomacy in rhetorical traditions. Using storying as their method, they present an alternative view of autistic rhetoricity by foregrounding the cunning rhetorical abilities of autistics and by framing autism as a narrative condition wherein autistics are the best-equipped people to define their experience. Contending that autism represents a queer way of being that simultaneously embraces and rejects the rhetorical, Yergeau shows how autistic people queer the lines of rhetoric, humanity, and agency. In so doing, they demonstrate how an autistic rhetoric requires the reconceptualization of rhetoric's very essence.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

M. Remi Yergeau is Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822370204
• ISBN 13: 9780822370208
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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