Critical neurodiversity studies : divergent textualities in literature and culture / edited by Jenny Bergenmar, Louise Creechan and Anna Stenning.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bergenmar, Jenny, 1973- editor.

Creechan, Louise, editor.

Stenning, Anna, editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Critical interventions in the medical and health humanities.

Critical interventions in the medical and health humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--Methodology.

Criticism.

Neurodiversity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

"Bringing together cutting-edge research on neurodiversity as an evolving theme in Disability Studies and the wider Medical Humanities, this book Introduces a new, more inclusive field of scholarship for literary and cultural studies that explores the potential of neurodiverse scholarly practice in literary and cultural studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : critical neurodiversity studies : the contribution of literary and cultural studies / Jenny Bergenmar, Louise Creechan, and Anna Stenning

How Landschip's oeuvre invites us to read beyond what we think we know / Leni Van Goidsenhoven : Reading porously

'Read between the signs' : Autism, sensory experience, and narrative invention / Sarinah O'Donoghue

Re-embodying difference : race, space, and neurodiverse realities / Arya Thampuran

Neuroqueer (a)socialities : mapping out neurotrans textualities through literary ephemera / Abs Ashley

The lifted veil : neurodivergence, narrative, and scholarship / Louise Creechan

"All discourses but my own afflict me" : Morose's house as a seventeenth-century autistic utopia (Epicoene, 1609) / Laura Seymour

'Words that smack and tremble' : narrating neurodivergence in Ingeborg Bachmann's The book of Franza / Liselotte van der Gucht

Neurodivergent futures : community, vulnerability, and social change in Octavia E. Butler's Earthseed series / Chiara Montalti

Humorous failures. Neurodivergence in Scandinavian young adult literature / Jenny Bergenmar

Albert Camus' L'Etranger. Reparative neurodivergent reading as provocation / Alice Hagopian

An autistic writerness : exploring autistic reader/writer agency / Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist and Anna Nygren

AutisTime : imagined friends and borrowed clocks / James McGrath

Wounded attachments : how two neurodivergent scholars connected with medieval literature and each other / Sophie Sexon and Hope Doherty-Harrison.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1-350-42119-7

1-350-42118-9

1-350-42120-0

OCLC:

1512071086