Disability is history and futurity, culture and society, practice
and theory, work and play, an immense desire for life by which body
and mind are dragged kicking and screaming into each and every new
day. Using autocritical discourse analysis, a new hybrid research
method that combines aspects of the established methods of critical
discourse analysis (CDA) and autoethnography, this book explores
the formative cultural identity politics of disability via cultural
stations of UK popular culture. These cultural stations include
action figures, children’s books, television miniseries, comics,
comedy films, teenage drama and sitcoms, the punk rock movement,
and alternative comedy. Although the cultural stations range from
toys and comics to aggressive music and chaotic sitcoms, all are
considered with a focus on the language and tropes of disability.
Indeed, most of the works are not remembered as portrayals of
disability but the book’s analysis reveals flash if not fleeting
representations that, when centralised, clarify patterns of
duplicity. Via the language of power, and the power of language,
all these texts are found to have contributed to the formative
cultural identity politics of disability. It will be of interest to
all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, toy
studies, comic studies, humour studies, television studies, popular
music studies, gender studies, literary studies, and cultural
studies.
General
Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Autocritical Disability Studies |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
First published: |
2024 |
Authors: |
David Bolt
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
100 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-255397-9 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-03-255397-9 |
Barcode: |
9781032553979 |
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