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Author:   Benjamin Fraser
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9781487502331

ISBN 10:   1487502338
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   08 June 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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"""Whether interested in theory, disability, aesthetics, or visual culture, Cognitive Disability Aesthetics is a thought-provoking and valuable means of prompting or continuing all such conversations."" -- Stuart Davis, University of Cambridge * <em>Bulletin of Spanish Studies</em> *"

Whether interested in theory, disability, aesthetics, or visual culture, Cognitive Disability Aesthetics is a thought-provoking and valuable means of prompting or continuing all such conversations. -- Stuart Davis, University of Cambridge * <em>Bulletin of Spanish Studies</em> *

An impressively theorized case for recharting the boundaries of scholarship on disability in the humanities, Fraser's book compellingly argues for questioning the productivity of an existing divide between bodily and cognitive (intellectual, developmental, and psychiatric) approaches. Along the way, he convincingly moves toward bridging a gap between narrative and visual methodologies in the disability studies field at large, while also making an important contribution to moving criticism of contemporary Anglophone and Hispanophone (here, by way of Spain) disability culture much more closely into conversation. - Matthew J. Marr, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Pennsylvania State University Professor Fraser's Cognitive Disability Aesthetics is an innovative study that fills a gap in the field of Disability Studies. The theoretical proposals and the magnificent analysis of visual representations of cognitive disability bring attention to an important and neglected area of inquiry. - Encarnacion Juarez-Almendros, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame

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

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