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The Fantasy of Disability - Images of Loss in Popular Culture (Paperback)
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The Fantasy of Disability - Images of Loss in Popular Culture (Paperback)
Series: Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
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What are the unconscious fantasies circulating in representations
of disability? What role do these fantasies play in defining the
condition of disability? What can these fantasies teach us about
human vulnerability writ large? The Fantasy of Disability explores
how popular culture texts, such as Degrassi: The Next Generation
and Glee, fantasize about what life with a physical disability must
be like, while at the same time exerting tremendous pressure on
disabled individuals to conform their identity and behaviour to fit
within the margins of these societally perpetuated archetypes.
Rather than merely engaging with how disability is represented,
though, this text investigates how representations of disability
reveal their nondisabled producers to be perpetually anxious
subjects, doomed to fear not just the disabled subject but the very
reality of disability lurking within. Situated at the nexus of
disability studies, media studies and psychology, this text
presents an innovative way of analyzing representations of
disability in popular culture, inverting the psychoanalytic gaze
back upon the nondisabled to investigate how disability can become
a lens through which to interrogate the normate subject.
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