Autistic Dreaming: Vibrant Memory, Activism, Environment
Anna Reading
Aug 2025 · Worlds of Memory Book 16 · Berghahn Books
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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.
About the author
Anna Reading is Professor of Media and Cultural Memory at King’s College, University of London, and Honorary Visiting Professor at Western Sydney University, Australia. Focusing on cultural memory and activism, she specializes in memories of Roma, the Holocaust and Eastern Europe, digital memory, and gender. Her recent publications include Polish Women, Solidarity and Feminism (Palgrave Macmillan, 1992); The Social Inheritance of the Holocaust: Gender, Memory and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) Save As... Digital Memories (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) Gender and Memory in the Globital Age (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and A Right to Memory (Berghahn Books, 2023).
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