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Diagnosis Deafness in Cancer Comics
- Author(s):
- A. David Lewis (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies, Medical Humanities, TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies, TC Popular Culture
- Subject(s):
- Comic books, strips, etc., Comic books, strips, etc.--Study and teaching, Graphic novels, Deaf--Study and teaching
- Item Type:
- Presentation
- Meeting Title:
- Comics and Comic Art Area: Monsters Inside and Out
- Meeting Org.:
- Popular Culture Association (PCA)
- Meeting Loc.:
- Washington, DC
- Meeting Date:
- April 19, 2019
- Tag(s):
- Cancer, graphic medicine, deafness, diagnoses, oncology, Comics, Comics studies, Comic book studies, Deaf studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/7qdp-fq11
- Abstract:
- A brief piece on what I call "diagnosis deafness." In short, to depict the sudden disorientation and shock of being diagnosed with cancer, comics artists frequently employ a visual rhetoric usually reserved for instances of deafness. At least momentarily – during an immensely significant moment in the life of the character – words fail, devolving into meaningless sound strokes or marked by mute blankness.
- Notes:
- Portions of this presentation were originally published as part of The Middle Spaces roundtable, "Seeing Sounds / Hearing Pictures": https://themiddlespaces.com/2019/04/09/seeing-sounds-part-one/
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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