Down Syndrome culture : life writing, documentary, and fiction film in Iberian and Latin American contexts / / Benjamin Fraser

• Autore: Fraser Benjamin
• Pubblicazione: Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (204 pages)
• Disciplina: 616.85/8842
• Soggetto topico: Down syndrome - Patients - Iberian Peninsula - Social life and customs - 21st century; Down syndrome - Patients - Latin America - Social life and customs - 21st century; Down syndrome - Patients - Iberian Peninsula - Biography - 21st century; Down syndrome - Patients - Latin America - Biography - 21st century; Down syndrome - Patients - Iberian Peninsula - In motion pictures - 21st century; Down syndrome - Patients - Latin America - In motion pictures - 21st century
• Classificazione: SOC000000SOC029000SOC052000
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• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-179) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Foreword: Down Is Everywhere by Michael Bérubé -- Introduction -- 1. Down Syndrome Culture -- 2. DS Life Writing -- 3. Disability Ensembles -- 4. Where Is Down? -- 5. Interdependence and Individualism -- Conclusion: Amplification and Interpretive Power -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: People with Down syndrome possess a culture. They are producers of culture. And in the 21st century, this culture is increasingly visible as a global phenomenon. Down Syndrome Culture examines Down syndrome alongside its social, cultural, and artistic representation. Author Benjamin Fraser draws upon neomaterialist and posthumanist approaches to disability as well as the work of disability theorists such as David Mitchell, Sharon Snyder, Susan Antebi, Tobin Siebers, and Stuart Murray. By particularly focusing on Down syndrome, he showcases the unique place that it holds as an intellectual and developmental disability--one that fits between the social and medical models of disability--within the disability studies field. Down Syndrome Culture also pushes the traditionally Anglophone borders of disability studies by examining examples in Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese-language texts, and incorporating the work of thinkers in Iberian and Latin American studies. Through a close analysis of life writing, documentaries, and fiction films, the book emphasizes the central role of people with Down syndrome in contemporary cultural production. Chapters discuss the autobiography of Andy Trias Trueta, the social actors of the documentary Los niños [The Grown-Ups] (2016), dancers from Danza Mobile, and a variety of fiction films, challenging ableist understandings of disability in nuanced ways. Ultimately, this book reveals the lives, cultural work, and representations of people with trisomy 21 in an international context.
• Titolo autorizzato: Down Syndrome culture
• ISBN: 9780472904556; 0472904558
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910889699903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Corporealities.