Disability Automediality: Verbal, Graphic, Digital - Single View

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Type of Course	Seminar	Number
Hours per week in term	2	Term	WiSe 2019/20
Department	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Language	englisch
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application period	01.10.2019 - 10.11.2019 enrollment

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		Day	Time	Frequency	Duration	Room	Lecturer	Canceled/rescheduled on	Max. participants
	Seminar	Fr	10:00 to 12:00	wöchentlich	18.10.2019 to 07.02.2020	1.09.1.15	PD Dr. Röder	27.12.2019: Akademische Weihnachtsferien 03.01.2020: Akademische Weihnachtsferien	40

Description	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. The last decades have seen an upsurge of autobiographical writing as well as of multimedia self-presentations by disabled persons. This seminar focuses on female British authors’ verbal, graphic and digital autobiographies which depict life stories shaped by physical, psychiatric and cognitive disabilities. “Disability” will be introduced as a fluid, intersectional identity category (a category intersecting with gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity/race) that challenges the binary opposition between “disabled” and “non-disabled”, “normal” or “able-bodied”. The seminar deals with the broader subject of disability as a new category in cultural and literary studies as well as with disability autobiography as a multimedia genre. We will analyse verbal, graphic and digital forms of autobiographies by investigating their narrative structures and by exploring them as creative responses to the ableist, mentalist, sexist, racist and heteronormative representations of women with physical, psychiatric and cognitive disabilities in medical discourse and the media. Furthermore, we discuss if (and how) the self-presentations in different media produce and perform unexpected, novel, controversial and strongly interactive images of bio- and neurodiversity.
Literature	Printed Memoirs (please purchase or borrow): Joanne Limburg: The Woman Who Thought Too Much. A Memoir of Obsession and Compulsion (London: Atlantic Books, 2010), verbal/print (on OCD) Katie Green: Lighter Than My Shadow (London: Jonathan Cape, 2013), graphic memoir/print (on anorexia) Francesca Martinez: What the **** Is Normal? (London: Virgin Books, 2014), verbal/print (on cerebral palsy) Blog: Jessica Thom: Touretteshero (on Tourette’s) YouTube vlogs: Jessica Kellgren-Fozard, Mandeville Sisters, Wheelsnoheels, invisible i, Hannah Hodgson, Krystal-Bella Shaw, KatzClaws, The Little Blue Pot, TheKingBeth, Isabelle Weall

Description

Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading.

The last decades have seen an upsurge of autobiographical writing as well as of multimedia self-presentations by disabled persons. This seminar focuses on female British authors’ verbal, graphic and digital autobiographies which depict life stories shaped by physical, psychiatric and cognitive disabilities. “Disability” will be introduced as a fluid, intersectional identity category (a category intersecting with gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity/race) that challenges the binary opposition between “disabled” and “non-disabled”, “normal” or “able-bodied”. The seminar deals with the broader subject of disability as a new category in cultural and literary studies as well as with disability autobiography as a multimedia genre. We will analyse verbal, graphic and digital forms of autobiographies by investigating their narrative structures and by exploring them as creative responses to the ableist, mentalist, sexist, racist and heteronormative representations of women with physical, psychiatric and cognitive disabilities in medical discourse and the media. Furthermore, we discuss if (and how) the self-presentations in different media produce and perform unexpected, novel, controversial and strongly interactive images of bio- and neurodiversity.

Literature

Printed Memoirs (please purchase or borrow):
Joanne Limburg: The Woman Who Thought Too Much. A Memoir of Obsession and Compulsion (London: Atlantic Books, 2010), verbal/print (on OCD)
Katie Green: Lighter Than My Shadow (London: Jonathan Cape, 2013), graphic memoir/print (on anorexia)
Francesca Martinez: What the **** Is Normal? (London: Virgin Books, 2014), verbal/print (on cerebral palsy)
Blog:
Jessica Thom: Touretteshero (on Tourette’s)
YouTube vlogs:
Jessica Kellgren-Fozard, Mandeville Sisters, Wheelsnoheels, invisible i, Hannah Hodgson, Krystal-Bella Shaw, KatzClaws, The Little Blue Pot, TheKingBeth, Isabelle Weall

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