Review of Autistic Disturbances: Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe, Julia Miele Rodas (2018)

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  • Rua M. Williams Assistant Professor in Computer Graphics and Technology Purdue University

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https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v9i5.708

Abstract

Julia Miele Rodas offers Autistic Disturbances: Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe as a tome of resistant literary praxis. So that we might allow ‘disordered’ to claim poetic voice- that we might recognize the celebration of this voice in our culturally treasured texts, and rather than require retroactive diagnosis, we simply allow these voices to be recognized as worthy- and Autistic. At last, a text which explores autistic language: allowing for its ironies without claiming it to be paradoxical; giving shape to its cultural consistencies without constraining it to a pathologized rigidity; allowing for both meaning where a reader might suspect none and none where a reader might insist on inserting one; and all while refusing to stigmatize, pathologize, medicalize, problematize, or even to diagnose.

Author Biography

Rua M. Williams, Assistant Professor in Computer Graphics and Technology Purdue University

Assistant Professor in Computer Graphics and Technology Purdue University

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Published

2020-12-20

How to Cite

Williams, R. M. (2020). Review of Autistic Disturbances: Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe, Julia Miele Rodas (2018). Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 9(5), 550–553. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v9i5.708

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Vol. 9 No. 5 (2020): Disability Studies in Education—Critical Conversations

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Reviews

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