Autistic Dreaming
Vibrant Memory, Activism, Environment

By (author) Anna Reading

ISBN13: 9781836950882

Imprint: Berghahn Books

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Format: Hardback

Published: 01/08/2025

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Description
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.
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Forget (Full) Chapter 2. (Non) Sense Chapter 3. More-Than-Human-Memory Conclusion: Rewilding Memory Studies Bibliography Index
  • Other performing arts
  • Literary studies: general
  • Social & cultural history
  • Sociology: family & relationships
  • Professional & Vocational
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