Images of Disability / Imágenes de la diversidad funcional
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The series constitutes a forum for the investigation of mental images and concepts as well as concrete representations of disability from a literary and cultural studies’ perspective based on media, theater and film studies. On the one hand, the word ‘images’ refers to the visibility and visualisation of stigmatised deviance and on the other to traditional and innovative ideas and concepts of disability in artistic representations in the broadest sense. The spectrum of topics ranges from analysis of traditional literary texts, theatre performances and (documentary and feature) films to virtual representations on the Internet. The series focusses on texts from the 20th and 21st centuries. However, contributions with a historical perspective are also accepted. All books are published in Spanish, German and English.
La serie constituye un foro para la investigación de imágenes mentales y representaciones concretas de la discapacidad, desde la perspectiva de los estudios literarios y de los estudios culturales, propuestas desde medios como el teatro y el cine. Las 'imágenes' se refieren a la visibilización neutra y a la visibilización de la desviación estigmatizada; así como a las ideas tradicionales e innovadoras de la discapacidad, en las formas artísticas de expresión en un sentido más amplio. El espectro de temas abarca desde análisis de textos tradicionales, teatro y películas hasta el área temática de los estudios visuales y las formas virtuales de representación en Internet. Un aspecto muy importante será la atención prestada a creaciones de los siglos XX y XXI. En todo caso, también se aceptarán contribuciones con perspectiva histórica. Los libros se publican en español, alemán e inglés.
Advisory Board / consejo científico:
Susan Antebi (University of Toronto)
Klaus Birnstiel (Universität Greifswald)
Patricia Brogna (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Berit Callsen (Universität Osnabrück)
Matei Chihaia (Universität Wuppertal)
Benjamin Fraser (University of Arizona)
Alejandro Gasel (Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral)
Antonio Gómez Ramos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Johannes Görbert (Université de Fribourg)
Helena Houvenaghel (Universiteit Utrecht)
Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice (Uniwersytet Wrocławski)
Soledad Pereyra (Universität Passau)
Ryan Prout (University of Cardiff)
Christian von Tschilschke (Universität Münster)
The series is published at De Gruyter since 2024. La serie se publica con De Gruyter desde 2024.
Author / Editor information
Susanne Hartwig, University of Passau, Germany; Julio Enrique Checa Puerta, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.
Surprising experiences with performers with intellectual disabilities can raise awareness of subliminal negative perceptions and open them to critique, e.g., in professional theater productions and films. This book examines productions and films against the backdrop of ideas of the everyday world using three analytical perspectives: narratives and expectations as meaningful contexts and experiences with disability.
This volume analyzes the ambivalence of comic representations of disability in fictional texts, films and stage performances, as well as the ambivalence of reception. It seeks to describe precisely what kind of comicality is used and what "communities of laughter" are created as a result: under what conditions does comedy turn into violence and cruelty, and liberating distancing into stigmatization and exclusion?
