Abstract
Abstract: This article focuses on a filmic portrayal of issues relating to autism in a Chinese context, using this as a prism through which to consider how meanings associated with disability in general, and the autistic spectrum in particular, are produced. Instead of perpetuating a reductive positive/negative approach to representation, the article focuses on the fluid and dynamic ways in which author and audience co-produce texts relating to disability in ways which are invariably influenced by, and reproducing of, specific socio-cultural and discursive circumstances. Meaning-making in relation to disability is, however, ongoing and there is potential to realize disability differently.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 535-552 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Disability and Society |
Volume | 31 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 20 Apr 2016 |
Keywords
- Autistic spectrum
- discourse
- manifest/latent content
- text
- well-meaning representations
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health(social science)
- General Health Professions
- General Social Sciences