The Visual Metaphor of Disability in Sarah Leavitt's Graphic Memoir Tangles: A story about alzheimer's, my mother, and me
Borrowing George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor theory, and its implications for the study of visual metaphors, this article seeks to investigate the representation of the disabled body in the graphic memoir Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me (2012), by Sarah Leavi...
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Borrowing George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor theory, and its implications for the study of visual metaphors, this article seeks to investigate the representation of the disabled body in the graphic memoir Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me (2012), by Sarah Leavitt. The genre of comics, as a cross-discursive medium, is prolific in the use of visual metaphor as a narrative technique and Leavitt’s graphic memoir, in particular, employs visual metaphor in the depiction of her mother’s experience of Alzheimer’s, as someone slowly distancing herself from her family.
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| spelling | doaj-art-9f5d81d304114ebbbb918a9f5484b05b2025-08-20T01:49:54ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaIlha do Desterro0101-48462175-80262015-01-0168210.5007/2175-8026.2015v68n2p7524315The Visual Metaphor of Disability in Sarah Leavitt's Graphic Memoir Tangles: A story about alzheimer's, my mother, and meRenata Lucena Dalmaso Borrowing George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor theory, and its implications for the study of visual metaphors, this article seeks to investigate the representation of the disabled body in the graphic memoir Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me (2012), by Sarah Leavitt. The genre of comics, as a cross-discursive medium, is prolific in the use of visual metaphor as a narrative technique and Leavitt’s graphic memoir, in particular, employs visual metaphor in the depiction of her mother’s experience of Alzheimer’s, as someone slowly distancing herself from her family. https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/39027 |
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| title | The Visual Metaphor of Disability in Sarah Leavitt's Graphic Memoir Tangles: A story about alzheimer's, my mother, and me |
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| title_short | The Visual Metaphor of Disability in Sarah Leavitt's Graphic Memoir Tangles: A story about alzheimer's, my mother, and me |
| title_sort | visual metaphor of disability in sarah leavitt s graphic memoir tangles a story about alzheimer s my mother and me |
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