Critical Neurodiversity Studies

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. Bringing together a range of scholars and writers - the majority of whom identify as neurodivergent - this book critiques the assumption that writers, readers and editors share a uniform sensory, linguistic and social response to cultural production. Drawing on critical disability studies to question the idea that there is a ''normal'' human subject, it moves beyond representations of neurodivergent characters and questions common depictions of neurodivergence as special talents or social deficits. Chapters move beyond a singular focus on the representation of neurodivergence and explore what can be known or understood only when we engage in close and attentive reading to atypical deployments of language, form and genre. In essence, asking what it means in practice to perform a ''neurodivergent reading'' of literary texts.>

Préface
This book introduces a new, more inclusive field of scholarship for literary studies, cultural studies and medical humanities that explores the potential of neurodiverse scholarly practice in literary and cultural studies.

Auteur
Jenny Bergenmar is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Louise Creechan is a Lecturer in Literary Medical Humanities at Durham University, UK.Anna Stenning is a Wellcome Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK.

Contenu
Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction: Jenny Bergenmar, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Louise Creechan, Durham University, UK, and Anna Stenning, University of Leeds, UK : Critical neurodiversity studies: The contribution of literary and cultural studies Section 1 Frameworks Chapter 1: Leni Van Goidsenhoven, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands: Reading porously: How Landschip's oeuvre invites us to read beyond what we think we know Chapter 2: Sarinah O'Donoghue, University of Aberdeen, UK: 'Read between the signs': Autism, sensory experience, and narrative Invention Chapter 3: Arya Thampuran, Durham University, UK: Re-embodying difference: Race, space, and neurodiverse realities Chapter 4: Abs Ashley, University of Bristol, UK: Neuroqueer (a)socialities: Mapping out neurotrans textualities through literary ephemera Section 2 Readings Chapter 5: Louise Creechan, Durham University, UK: The Lifted Veil: Neurodivergence, narrative, and scholarship Chapter 6: Laura Seymour, University of Oxford, UK: "All discourses but my own afflict me": Morose's house as a seventeenth-century autistic utopia (Epicoene, 1609) Chapter 7: Liselotte van der Gucht, Ghent University, Belgium: 'Words that smack and tremble': Narrating neurodivergence in Ingeborg Bachmann's The Book of Franza Chapter 8: Chiara Montalti, University of Bologna, Italy: Neurodivergent futures: Community, vulnerability, and social change in Octavia E. Butler's Earthseed series Chapter 9: Jenny Bergenmar, University of Gothenburg, Sweden: Humorous failures. Neurodivergence in scandinavian young adult literature Chapter 10: Alice Hagopian, Queen's University Belfast, UK: Albert Camus' L'Étranger. Reparative neurodivergent reading as provocation Section 3 Writings Chapter 11: Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Södertörn University, Sweden and Anna Nygren, Gothenburg University, Sweden: An autistic writerness: Exploring autistic reader/writer agency Chapter 12: James McGrath, Leeds Beckett University, UK: AutisTime: Imagined friends and borrowed clocks Chapter 13: Sophie Sexon, University of Glasgow, UK, and Hope Doherty-Harrison, University of Edinburgh, UK: Wounded attachments: How two neurodivergent scholars connected with medieval literature and each other