Counter-cartographies Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance

"Notable for its deep, sustained attention to figurations of neurodivergence over the past sixty years, Counter-cartographies deftly tackles pressing questions in disability studies. This is an exemplary recovery project in disability studies, identifying new modes for thinking about neurodivergence as both an identity and an endeavor." - M. Remi Yergeau, author of Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness

"Counter-cartographies teaches us that neurodivergence is a propulsive force - an insurgent movement - that leaps, crawls, dances, swerves toward elsewheres beyond the neurotypical. Leon J. Hilton guides us on a wondrously wayward path from the asylum to the theater, from the campus to the wilderness, amid vast mindscapes and lifeworlds of autistic people. The result is an exquisite, kaleidoscopic map that plots worlds and worldmaking. This book is moving - because it performs errant movements and also because it is so deeply compelling that you will be moved." - La Marr Jurelle Bruce, author of How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity