area rugs
representing autism culture narrative fascination
from concerns about an autism epidemic to the mmr vaccine crisis autism is a source of peculiar fascination in the contemporary media . author stuart murray himself the parent of an autistic child contends that for all the coverage autism rarely emerges from the various images we produce of it as a comprehensible way of being in the world instead occupying a succession of narrative spaces as a source of fascination and wonder . a refreshing analysis and evaluation of autism within contemporary society and culture representing autism establishes the autistic presence as a way by which we might more fully articulate our understanding of those with the condition and what it means to be a human . this is an outstanding volume of empathetic scholarship ... . representing autism is a truly significant piece of cultural criticism about one of the defining conditions of our time . mark osteen loyola college