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  title info:
    title: Authoring autism
    sub title: on rhetoric and neurological queerness
  name:
    name part: Yergeau, Melanie
    name part: 1984-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: ProQuest (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Ebooks.
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations.
  abstract: In Authoring Autism Melanie 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. She also critiques 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 her method, she presents 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, she demonstrates how an autistic rhetoric requires the reconceptualization of rhetoric's very essence.
  table of contents: Involution -- Intention -- Intervention -- Invitation -- Invention -- Indexicality.
  note: Melanie Yergeau.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Description based on opening page (viewed Apr 04, 2019).
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Autism
  subject:
    topic: Disability studies
  subject:
    topic: Autistic people
  subject:
    topic: Autism Spectrum Disorder
    topic: psychology
  subject:
    topic: Mentally Ill Persons
    topic: psychology
  subject:
    topic: Narration
  subject:
    topic: Personal Autonomy
  subject:
    topic: Stereotyping
  classification: RC553.A88 Y474 2018
  classification: WS 350.8.P4 Y473a 2018eb
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170913
    record change date: 20190705091107.0
    record identifier: in00004521235
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng