I Think I Might Be Autistic by Cynthia Kim

I Think I Might Be Autistic by Cynthia Kim

Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature provides a new and wide-ranging appraisal of shame in colonial and postcolonial literature in English. Bringing together young and established voices in postcolonial studies, these essays tackle shame and racism, shame and agency, shame and ethical recognition, the problem of shamelessness, the shame of willed forgetfulness.　 Linked by a common thread of reflections on shame and literary writing, the essays consider specifically whether the aesthetic and ethical capacities of literature enable a measure of stability or recuperation in the presence of shame's destructive potential. The obscenity of the in-human, both in the colonial setting and in aftermaths that show little sign of abating, entails the acute significance of shame as a subject for continuing and urgent critical attention.　

Cynthia Kim was diagnosed with autism spectrum disease (ASD) as an adult, and she spent the next year researching the disorder in order to better understand its impact on her life, documenting her findings on her blog, 'Musings of an Aspie.' Cynthia is a freelance writer who has written in both fiction and non-fiction sectors during the last 10 years. She lives in Maryland, where she manages her own independent publishing company, Turtle Press.