Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Theorizing Visual Disability Representations

Chapter 1

The (In)Visibility of Cognitive Disability

Chapter 2

Signification and Staring: Icon, Index, and Symbol in Visual Media

Chapter 3

Disability Scholarship at the Seam: The Materiality of Visual Narrative

Part II: Cognition, Collaboration, Community

Chapter 4

Visualizing Down Syndrome and Autism: The Trazos Singulares [Singular Strokes] (2011) Exhibition and María cumple 20 años [María Turns Twenty] (2015)

Chapter 5

Sequencing Alzheimer’s Dementia: Paco Roca’s Graphic Novel Arrugas [Wrinkles] (2008)

Chapter 6

Screening Schizophrenia: Documentary Cinema, Cognitive Disability and Abel García Roure’s Una cierta verdad [A Certain Truth] (2008)

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

About the Author

Benjamin Fraser is a professor of Hispanic Studies and chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at East Carolina University.

Reviews

"Whether interested in theory, disability, aesthetics, or visual culture, Cognitive Disability Aesthetics is a thought-provoking and valuable means of prompting or continuing all such conversations."
*Bulletin of Spanish Studies*