The Visual Metaphor of Disability in Sarah Leavitt's Graphic Memoir Tangles: A story about alzheimer's, my mother, and me

The Visual Metaphor of Disability in Sarah Leavitt's Graphic Memoir Tangles: A story about alzheimer's, my mother, and me

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 Leavit...

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Main Author: Renata Lucena Dalmaso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2015-01-01
Series:Ilha do Desterro
Subjects:
disability
visual metaphor
comics
graphic memoir
alzheimer’s
Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/39027
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spelling doaj-9f5d81d304114ebbbb918a9f5484b05b2020-11-25T02:23:31ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaIlha do Desterro 0101-48462175-80262015-01-0168207509210.5007/2175-8026.2015v68n2p7524315The Visual Metaphor of Disability in Sarah Leavitt's Graphic Memoir Tangles: A story about alzheimer's, my mother, and meRenata Lucena DalmasoBorrowing 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.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/39027disabilityvisual metaphorcomicsgraphic memoiralzheimer’s
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Ilha do Desterro
disability
visual metaphor
comics
graphic memoir
alzheimer’s
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title The Visual Metaphor of Disability in Sarah Leavitt's Graphic Memoir Tangles: A story about alzheimer's, my mother, and me
title_short The Visual Metaphor of Disability in Sarah Leavitt's Graphic Memoir Tangles: A story about alzheimer's, my mother, and me
title_full The Visual Metaphor of Disability in Sarah Leavitt's Graphic Memoir Tangles: A story about alzheimer's, my mother, and me
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title_sort visual metaphor of disability in sarah leavitt's graphic memoir tangles: a story about alzheimer's, my mother, and me
publisher Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
series Ilha do Desterro
issn 0101-4846
2175-8026
publishDate 2015-01-01
description 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.
topic disability
visual metaphor
comics
graphic memoir
alzheimer’s
url https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/39027
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