Authoring Autism - On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness

Melanie Yergeau is Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan.

List of contents

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Involution  1
1. Intention  35
2. Intervention  89
3. Invitation  135
4. Invention  175
Epilogue. Indexicality  207
Notes  215
Bibliography  261
Index  289

About the author

M. Remi Yergeau is Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan.

Summary

Challenging the academic and cultural stereotypes that do not acknowledge the rhetorical capabilities of autistic people, M. Remi Yergeau shows how autistics both embrace and reject the rhetorical, thereby queering the lines of rhetoric, humanity, agency, and the very essence of rhetoric itself.

Product details

• Authors: M Remi Yergeau, M. Remi Yergeau, Melanie Yergeau
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780822370116
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-7011-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Thought in the Act; Thought in the Act
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories