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Authoring Autism
AuthorM. Remi Yergeau
PublisherDuke University Press
Publication date
December 1, 2017
Awards
ISBN9780822370208

Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness is a book by American academic M. Remi Yergeau, published by Duke University Press in December 2017.

Summary

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From the publisher:

In Authoring Autism [Remi] 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. They also critique early intensive behavioral interventions—which have much in common with gay conversion therapy—and question the ableist privileging of intentionality and diplomacy in rhetorical traditions. Using storying as their method, they present an alternate 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, they demonstrate how an autistic rhetoric requires the reconceptualization of rhetoric’s very essence.[1]

Reception

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Bradley Lewis, writing for the Journal of Medical Humanities ...[2]

Sam Kizer, writing for Feminist Formations...[3]

Rhetoric Review ...[4]

Further, the book has been reviewed in several academic and public venues, including American Literature,[5] Disability & Society,[6] Feminist Formations,[7] GLQ,[8] the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies,[9] the Los Angeles Review of Books,[10] philoSOPHIA,[11] Rhetoric Society Quarterly,[12] and Public Books.[13]

Awards

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Awards for Authoring Autism
Year Award Result Ref.
2017 Modern Language Association First Book Prize Winner [14]
2019 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Book Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship Winner [15]
Rhetoric Society of America Book Award Winner [16]

References

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  1. ^ "Authoring Autism". m. remi yergeau. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  2. ^ Lewis, Bradley (June 2019). "Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness: by Melanie Yergeau, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2018". Journal of Medical Humanities. 40 (2): 277–279. doi:10.1007/s10912-018-9520-6. ISSN 1041-3545.
  3. ^ Kizer, Sam (Winter 2020). "Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by M. Remi Yergeau (review)". Feminist Formations. 32 (3). Baltimore: 183–185 – via ProQuest.
  4. ^ Jack, Jordynn (2019-01-02). "Melanie Yergeau. Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 302 pages. $26.95 paperback". Rhetoric Review. 38 (1): 111–113. doi:10.1080/07350198.2019.1549415. ISSN 0735-0198.
  5. ^ Jenson, Deborah (2020-03-01). "See It Feelingly: Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English ProfessorAuthoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness". American Literature. 92 (1): 183–185. doi:10.1215/00029831-8056700. ISSN 0002-9831.
  6. ^ Williams, Anna (2018-07-03). "Authoring autism: on rhetoric and neurological queerness: Authoring autism: on rhetoric and neurological queerness, by Melanie Yergeau, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2017, 312 pp., $26.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-82-237020-8, $94.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-82-237011-6". Disability & Society. 33 (6): 996–997. doi:10.1080/09687599.2018.1457500. ISSN 0968-7599.
  7. ^ Kizer, Sam (Winter 2020). "Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by M. Remi Yergeau (review)". Feminist Formations. 32 (3). Baltimore: 183–185 – via ProQuest.
  8. ^ Mullaney, Clare (2020-04-01). "Fucking with Rhetoric". GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 26 (2): 355–357. doi:10.1215/10642684-8141942. ISSN 1064-2684.
  9. ^ Karmiris, Maria (2019). "Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by Melanie Yergeau (review)". Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. 13 (4): 483–486. ISSN 1757-6466.
  10. ^ Wing, Travis Chi Lau (2019-05-02). "The Poetics of Autism". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  11. ^ Parks, Alison (2021). "Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University by Matt Brim, and: Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare, and: Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by M. Remi Yergeau (review)". philoSOPHIA. 11 (1): 250–257. ISSN 2155-0905 – via Project MUSE.
  12. ^ Johnson, Jenell (2021-01-01). "Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness: by M. Remi Yergeau, Durham, NC, Duke UP, 2018, 312 pp., $27.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-8223-7020-8". Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 51 (1): 71–72. doi:10.1080/02773945.2020.1851117. ISSN 0277-3945.
  13. ^ Galvin, Annie (2019-09-23). "Autism Aesthetics". Public Books. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  14. ^ "Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book Winners". Modern Language Association. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  15. ^ "Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship". Conference on College Composition and Communication. 2018-06-06. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  16. ^ "Book Award". Rhetoric Society of America. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
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