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Disability Duplicity and the Formative Cultural Identity Politics of Generation X

Disability Duplicity and the Formative Cultural Identity Politics of Generation X

Hardcover

Series: Autocritical Disability Studies

General SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1032553987
ISBN13: 9781032553986
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 21 2023
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Disability is history and futurity, culture and society, practice and theory, work and play, an immense desire for life by which body and mind are dragged kicking and screaming into each and every new day.

Using autocritical discourse analysis, a new hybrid research method that combines aspects of the established methods of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and autoethnography, this book explores the formative cultural identity politics of disability via cultural stations of UK popular culture. These cultural stations include action figures, children's books, television miniseries, comics, comedy films, teenage drama and sitcoms, the punk rock movement, and alternative comedy. Although the cultural stations range from toys and comics to aggressive music and chaotic sitcoms, all are considered with a focus on the language and tropes of disability. Indeed, most of the works are not remembered as portrayals of disability but the book's analysis reveals flash if not fleeting representations that, when centralised, clarify patterns of duplicity. Via the language of power, and the power of language, all these texts are found to have contributed to the formative cultural identity politics of disability.

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