Benjamin Fraser

Cognitive Disability Aesthetics

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cognitive Disability Aesthetics explores the invisibility of cognitive disability in theoretical, historical, social, and cultural contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781487502331
• ISBN-10: 1487502338
• Artikelnr.: 47969654

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Fraser is a professor of Hispanic Studies and chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at East Carolina University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Theorizing Visual Disability Representations
Chapter 1
The (In)Visibility of Cognitive Disability
Chapter 2
Signification and Staring: Icon, Index, and Symbol in Visual Media
Chapter 3
Disability Scholarship at the Seam: The Materiality of Visual Narrative
Part II: Cognition, Collaboration, Community
Chapter 4
Visualizing Down Syndrome and Autism: The Trazos Singulares [Singular
Strokes] (2011) Exhibition and María cumple 20 años [María Turns Twenty]
(2015)
Chapter 5
Sequencing Alzheimer’s Dementia: Paco Roca’s Graphic Novel Arrugas
[Wrinkles] (2008)
Chapter 6
Screening Schizophrenia: Documentary Cinema, Cognitive Disability and Abel
García Roure’s Una cierta verdad [A Certain Truth] (2008)
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index