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Autism portfolio

We request that these two items are read as a portfolio since they form a series. The article is a follow-up study of materials that mostly post-date the publication of the monograph. In addition, the article extends the concerns of the book to include a new focus on the language and forms of clinical medicine, especially diagnostic criteria, and media reports of developments in autism research, by way of broadening the monograph’s substantial critical readings of mainly fictional autism representation.

Murray’s work on autism presents an extensive thesis outlining autistic subjectivity and its representation in cultural narratives, grounded both in literary/cultural modes of critical analysis and disability politics. It entailed working across a considerable body of material, analysing literary fiction, memoir and life-writing, film/television/theatre, photography, scientific research, charity rhetoric and health texts. Its complexity lies in the synthesis of multiple disciplinary vocabularies and viewpoints, aligned with a commitment to placing those with autism centrally in critical debates about the condition.