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The Fantasy of Disability: Images of Loss in Popular Culture

The Fantasy of Disability: Images of Loss in Popular Culture

Preston, Jeffrey

Hardcover

Series: Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

General SociologyPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 1472467965
ISBN13: 9781472467966
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 26 2016
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

What are the unconscious fantasies circulating in representations of disability? What role do these fantasies play in defining the condition of disability? What can these fantasies teach us about human vulnerability writ large?

The Fantasy of Disability explores how popular culture texts, such as Degrassi: The Next Generation and Glee, fantasize about what life with a physical disability must be like, while at the same time exerting tremendous pressure on disabled individuals to conform their identity and behaviour to fit within the margins of these societally perpetuated archetypes. Rather than merely engaging with how disability is represented, though, this text investigates how representations of disability reveal their nondisabled producers to be perpetually anxious subjects, doomed to fear not just the disabled subject but the very reality of disability lurking within.

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