Enmeshing Selves, Words and Media, or Two Life Writers in One Family Talk about Art and Disability

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Savarese, D. J. & Savarese, R. J. (2021). Enmeshing Selves, Words and Media, or Two Life Writers in One Family Talk about Art and Disability. Er(r)go. Teoria - Literatura - Kultura, (43), 111-129. https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.11693

Publication date: 30 Dec 2021 Added to AutiHub: 29 Sep 2026 Type: Article Article language: English
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1 / 2 (50.0%)
  1. David James Savarese *
  2. Ralph James Savarese

Abstract

Two life writers in the same family--one neurotypical, one autistic—converse about the mountain of material they’ve produced: poems, memoir, essays, scholarship, and documentary film. Preferring to conceive of their work as interdependent and enmeshed, not bound by the strictures of identity politics and thus separate or conflicting, they advance a neurocosmopolitan and rhizomatous understanding of the self in words. David James “DJ” Savarese is an artful activist, writer, teacher, and Co-Chair of The Alliance for Citizen-Directed Supports. An OSF Human Rights Initiative Youth Fellow (2017-19) and co-producer, narrator, and star of the Peabody award-winning documentary Deej: Inclusion Shouldn’t Be a Lottery, he publishes poems, creative nonfiction, and scholarly essays. Ralph James Savarese has authored five books and co-edited three collections, including the first on neurodiversity. He has received awards from the Herman Melville Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Mellon Foundation, which funded a neurohumanities fellowship at Duke University’s Institute for Brain Sciences. He teaches at Grinnell College.

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1 / 9 (11.1%) cited references include at least one author identified as autistic.
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2 / 14 (14.3%) names are linked to an author already present in AutiHub. 12 / 14 (85.7%) names are not yet linked.
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Calculated across all author names detected in the cited bibliography. Among names linked to an author already present in AutiHub: 1 / 2 (50.0%). Distinct people identified as autistic: 1 / 14 (7.1%).
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