Neurofutures

Essays on neurodiversity in life and literature

Rooted in disability activism and social justice discourse, Neurofutures defines, contextualizes, and reframes neurodiversity in its broadest sense--as the infinite variation of human minds. The essays highlight the voices of individuals with experiences of autism, anxiety, bipolar disorder, sleep-wake differences, obsessive-compulsive disorder, psychosis, and other forms of neurodivergence--experiences that may exist alongside other contexts like race, class, gender, and sexuality. Drawing on insights from literary texts and lived experiences, contributors acknowledge the pains and complexities of cognitive difference while evincing creative, defiant resilience and envisioning futures in which neurodivergence is valued, ableism is opposed, and intersectional justice is possible.

This volume contains discussion of the following authors and works: Hamja Ahsan, Shy Radicals The Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert; Jesse Ball, Census; Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling; Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End; Mark Eati and Max Eati, The Divine Maze; Hannah Emerson, The Kissing of Kissing; C. S. Friedman, This Alien Shore; Dianne Goddard and Peyton Goddard, I Am Intelligent; Temple Grandin; Thomas Hoccleve, "My Compleinte"; Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle; N. K. Jemisin, Broken Earth trilogy; Mira T. Lee, Everything Here Is Beautiful; "Little Eight John"; Toni Morrison, Beloved; Dawn Prince-Hughes, Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey through Autism; Jasbir Puar, The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability; Daniel Paul Schreber, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness; Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts; Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation; Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias; Adam Wolfond, The Wanting Way; Richard Wright, Native Son.