Autistic Dreaming - Reading, Anna

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Résumé :
An exacting reassessment of neurodiversity within activist and artistic communities, Autistic Dreaming illuminates how the integration of neurodivergent perspectives within critical memory studies has the opportunity to expand ideas about the relationship between the individual and collective, and reform our method of remembrance....

Sommaire:
The relationship between storytelling, neurodiversity, and memory remains critically overlooked. While scholarship recognizes the presence of neurodiverse thinking in popular folktales, and access to works by autistic people is growing, the opportunity neurodiverse storytelling offers to reshape communication and remembrance is largely neglected. Autistic Dreaming illuminates how the integration of neurodivergent perspectives can expand ideas of polysensory memory and the connection between human and more-than-human memory. Focusing on autistic activists' blogs, memoirs, artworks and films, this study spotlights a neuroqueer method of remembering that reforges links between the present and the past, and the individual and collective....