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Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1007/s10912-008-9057-1 BibTeX citation key: Squier2008a Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: "L’ascension du haut mal", "The Ride Together", Beauchard. Pierre-François, David B., Disability, Illness, Karasik. Paul Creators: Squier Collection: Journal of Medical Humanities |
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This essay draws on two emerging fields—the study of comics or graphic fiction, and disability studies—to demonstrate how graphic fictions articulate the embodied, ethical, and sociopolitical experiences of impairment and disability. Examining David B’s Epileptic and Paul Karasik and Judy Karasik’s The Ride Together, I argue that these graphic novels unsettle conventional notions of normalcy and disability. In so doing, they also challenge our assumed dimensions and possibilities of the comics genre and medium, demonstrating the great potential comics hold for disability studies.
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