Description
Book SynopsisAutism is typically characterized as impoverished or defective when it comes to language.
Autistic Disturbances reveals the ways interpreters have failed to register the real creative valence of autistic language and offers a theoretical framework for understanding the distinctive aesthetics of autistic rhetoric and semiotics.
Trade ReviewJulia Rodas rejects ableist repertoires of what language is and can mean, notably the understanding that language necessitates understanding or intelligibility . . . readers are viscerally confronted with autism's many possibilities, are given neurodivergent mechanisms through which to re-see
Villette,
Frankenstein,
Robinson Crusoe, and more . . . What
Autistic Disturbances offers is at once a method and a style for apprehending aesthetic autism, across genre and mode. This is an incomparable book, one brimming with ideas for how to reclaim autistic echoes in a morass of literary expression."" - Melanie Yergeau, author of
Authoring Autism
