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

"Cognitive Disability Aesthetics explores the invisibility of cognitive disability in theoretical, historical, social, and cultural contexts. Benjamin Fraser's cutting edge research and analysis signals a second-wave in disability studies that prioritizes cognition. Fraser expands upon pre...

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Main Author: Fraser, Benjamin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • On the (In)visibility of cognitive disability
  • Signification and staring: icon, index, and symbol in visual media
  • Disability scholarship at the seam: the materiality of visual narrative
  • Visualizing down syndrome and autism: the Trazos Singulares (Singular Strokes) (2011) exhibition and María cumple 20 años (Maria Turns Twenty) (2015)
  • Sequencing Alzheimer's dementia: Paco Roca's graphic novel Arrugas (Wrinkles) (2008)
  • Screening schizophrenia: documentary cinema, cognitive disability, and Abel García Roure's Una cierta verdad (A Certain Truth).