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Graphic Narratives, Disability and Cece Bell's El Deafo (2014) -…
Graphic Narratives, Disability and Cece Bell's El Deafo (2014)
How does the medium of comics shape encounters with disability, deafness, and normalcy?
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the use of an "authentic" child's perspective helps orient us; it's also a repurposed superhero motif to think about "El Deafo" as self-definition/empowerment
Opening page: feels like a montage to render a "typical childhood"; it feels like a photo album because of the spatio-topia; the
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the TV intertexts (Somewhere in Time, Star Trek, Little House on the Praerie); dates the time to emphasize authenticity
Kathryn: "The blank bubbles really stood out the most to me, even the word bubbles that have the words fading. This means a lot to me honestly. When people are not facing me, or they are whispering, it feels like I hear them like the faded bubbles "Sound"." Gives a visual rendering of an aural experience of degenrative loss
the use of speech bubbles remediated through her auditory experience then visualizing at the same time a new image of the misheard thing
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96: click turn out the lights IN THE GUTTER! Hearts in the gutter; gutter becomes a space to resist objectification!
DeafGains
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making use of disability to restructure the social--deafness as superpower not in the "supercrip" overcoming model"
Disability Studies: Lennard J. Davis Enforcing Normalcy; Rosemarie Garland Thomson Extraordinary Bodies Shapiro No Pity; disability as a spectrum; disability not in a binary; disability not the object of pity or fear; the temporary privilege of the abled-body
education and classification and classroom management; accommodations; IED and "compliance"; maybe classrooms are accessible, but play spaces aren't? (see Erevelles and Minear "Unspeakable Offenses")
learning about disability through workshops and modules about ADA and compliance in workplace; questions of who can work and where
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how does disability help us think through autonomy, productivity, and agency
COVID 19 reminds us about recovery, long COVID, health; interrupts fantasies of "youth" and health;
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El Deafo as a teaching tool: pg29-32 to become a detective and turn to posters and tools for how-to communicate; puts the onus back on the structures that inhibit communication--not her hearing loss
modeling friend behavior with Martha (accepting, understanding of assistive tech); compared to Ginny and Laura (objectifying, frustrating, etc)