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

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 previous...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Toronto Iberic
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Index
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE :Theorizing Visual Disability Representations
  • 1. On the (In)Visibility of Cognitive Disability
  • 2. Signification and Staring: Icon, Index, and Symbol in Visual Media
  • 3. Disability Scholarship at the Seam: The Materiality of Visual Narrative
  • PART TWO: Cognition, Collaboration, Community
  • 4. Visualizing Down Syndrome and Autism: The Trazos Singulares (Singular Strokes) (2011) Exhibition and María cumple 20 años (María Turns Twenty) (2015)
  • 5. Sequencing Alzheimer's Dementia: Paco Roca's Graphic Novel Arrugas (Wrinkles) (2008)
  • 6. Screening Schizophrenia: Documentary Cinema, Cognitive Disability, and Abel García Roure's Una cierta verdad (A Certain Truth) (2008)
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index