Cognitive Disability Aesthetics Visual Culture, Disability Representations, and the (In)Visibility of Cognitive Difference

• Auteur principal: Fraser, Benjamin (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: University of Toronto Press 2018
• Collection: Toronto Iberic
• Sujets: Literary studies: general; Literature; Alzheimer's disease; Cognition; Disabilities affecting intellectual abilities; Disability; Disability studies; Mental disorder; Schizophrenia; Wrinkles (film)
• Accès en ligne: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Résumé

Cognitive Disability Aesthetics explores the invisibility of cognitive disability in theoretical, historical, social, and cultural contexts. Fraser's cutting edge research and analysis signals a second-wave in disability studies that prioritizes cognition. He expands upon previous research into physical disability representations and focuses on those disabilities that tend to be least visible in society (autism, Down syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia). Moving beyond established literary approaches analyzing prose representations of disability, the book explores how iconic and indexical modes of signification operate in visual texts. Cognitive Disability Aesthetics successfully reconfigures disability studies in the humanities and exposes the chasm that exists between Anglophone disability studies and disability studies in the Hispanic world.

ISBN

9781487518158

Accès

Open Access