Abstract
Borrowing George Lakoff and Mark Johnson's Conceptual Metaphor theory, and its implications for the study of visual metaphors, this article seeks to investigate the representation of the disabled body in the graphic memoir Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me(2012), by Sarah Leavitt. The genre of comics, as a cross-discursive medium, is prolific in the use of visual metaphor as a narrative technique and Leavitt's graphic memoir, in particular, employs visual metaphor in the depiction of her mother's experience of Alzheimer's, as someone slowly distancing herself from her family. This article points to ways in which Sarah Leavitt's graphic memoir explores the potential of visual metaphor as an empowering narrative device in terms of representing disability.
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Florianópolis, SC,BR Abstract Borrowing George Lakof and Mark Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor theory, and its implications for the study of visual metaphors, this article seeks to investigate the representation of the disabled body in the graphic memoir Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me (2012), by Sarah Leavitt. he genre of comics, as a crossdiscursive medium, is proliic in the use of visual metaphor as a narrative technique and Leavitt’s graphic memoir, in particular, employs visual metaphor in the depiction of her mother’s experience of Alzheimer’s, as someone slowly distancing herself from her family. his article points to ways in which Sarah Leavitt’s graphic memoir explores the potential of visual metaphor as an empowering narrative device in terms of representing disability
Borrowing George Lakof and Mark Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor theory, and its implications for the study of visual metaphors, this article seeks to investigate the representation of the disabled body in the graphic memoir Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me (2012), by Sarah Leavitt. he genre of comics, as a cross-discursive medium, is proliic in the use of visual metaphor as a narrative technique and Leavitt’s graphic memoir, in particular, employs visual metaphor in the depiction of her mother’s experience of Alzheimer’s, as someone slowly distancing herself from her family. his research is focused, on the use of visual metaphor as a form of representation of disability in Leavitt’s autobiographical work
My questions here are: how does visual metaphor impact the experience of representing others with disability? How does the portrayal of disability in others complicate the idea of self-representation and disability? In what ways is visual metaphor employed to reinforce the stigmatization of those characters and in what ways is it used to subvert it?
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Florianópolis, SC,BR Abstract Borrowing George Lakof and Mark Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor theory, and its implications for the study of visual metaphors, this article seeks to investigate the representation of the disabled body in the graphic memoir Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me (2012), by Sarah Leavitt. he genre of comics, as a crossdiscursive medium, is proliic in the use of visual metaphor as a narrative technique and Leavitt’s graphic memoir, in particular, employs visual metaphor in the depiction of her mother’s experience of Alzheimer’s, as someone slowly distancing herself from her family. his article points to ways in which Sarah Leavitt’s graphic memoir explores the potential of visual metaphor as an empowering narrative device in terms of representing disability. Borrowing George Lakof and Mark Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor theory, and its implications for the study of visual metaphors, this article seeks to investigate the representation of the disabled body in the graphic memoir Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me (2012), by Sarah Leavitt.
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