{"id":1712,"date":"2024-11-19T08:39:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T07:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inclusivehumanities.eu\/narrazioni-di-dis-abilita-accessibile\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T14:48:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T13:48:02","slug":"disability-accessible-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inclusivehumanities.eu\/en\/disability-accessible-narratives\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability (accessible) Narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"

The research project connects the critical approaches of disability studies and health humanities and focuses on the narrative, cultural and discursive aspect of the concept of disability. In particular the project will develop along two main lines of investigation: <\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Alzheimer\u2019s and cognitive disability narratives, <\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Dis-abiliy narratives in children\u2019s and young adult\u2019s narratives.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Alzheimer\u2019s and cognitive disability\u2019s narratives (Chiara Battisti): <\/span>the proposal aims to investigate whether there are any traces of early manifestations of Alzheimer\u2019s and other cognitive disabilities in authors\u2019 writing, by means of a comparative textual analysis of works written before, and during\/after diagnosis. The proposal also aims to determine whether the detected changes in style are consistent with age-related changes or Alzheimer’s symptomatology. Some studies have shown that early manifestations of Alzheimer\u2019s can be detected through changes in an individual\u2019s speech and writing. These changes can include a decrease in vocabulary size, a reduction in grammatical complexity, and a decline in the coherence and clarity of the individual\u2019s writing.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Dis-ability narratives in children\u2019s and young adult\u2019s narratives (Sidia Fiorato)<\/span>: the project aims at investigating the representation and conception of disability in literary and cultural texts, both from a physical\/medical and psychilogical\/social perspective, in connection with the articulation of identity of the protagonists and readers. The research will focus on the Victorian period, in relation with the codification of childhood as a distinct life phase and the development of child psychology and psychiatry, and the contemporary period, in particular through the re-reading of fairy tales as a metaphor for the articulation of ableness and dis-abled identities, through the analysis of the protaginists and the communication with young readers. Th<\/span>e research will be based on a qualitative research design, specifically, comparative textual analysis, integrated with linguistic and stylometrics tools, cultural and medical theories.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Group leaders: <\/strong>Chiara Battisti and Sidia Fiorato<\/p>\n

    Internal members:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • Anja Meyer (assegnista Universit\u00e0 di Verona)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Actions:<\/strong>\u00a0WP 1.1\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

      References:<\/strong><\/p>\n

      Battisti C. (2018) \u201cAm I Still Alice?\u201d: The Quest for \u201ca Sense of Self\u201d and Alzheimer\u2019s Disease in Still Alice by Lisa Genova\u201d in Susan Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau, <\/span>The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction. A Paradoxical Quest<\/span><\/i>, Routledge.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
      \nSaid, E. (2006) <\/span>On Late Style<\/span><\/i>, New York: Vintage Book.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
      \nElizabeth A. Wheeler, \u201cDisability\u201d, in <\/span>A Companion to Children\u2019s Literature<\/span><\/i>, ed. Karen Coats et al, New York: Blackwell, 2022<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
      \nDonna Sayers Adomat, \u201cExploring Issues of Disability in Children\u2019s Literature Discussions\u201d, <\/span>Disability Studies Quarterly<\/span><\/i> 34.3 (2014)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The research project connects the critical approaches of disability studies and health humanities and focuses on the narrative, cultural and discursive aspect of the concept of disability. In particular the project will develop along two main lines of investigation: Alzheimer\u2019s and cognitive disability narratives, Dis-abiliy narratives in children\u2019s and young adult\u2019s narratives.\u00a0 Alzheimer\u2019s and cognitive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philology-and-literary-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inclusivehumanities.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inclusivehumanities.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inclusivehumanities.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inclusivehumanities.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inclusivehumanities.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inclusivehumanities.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2072,"href":"https:\/\/inclusivehumanities.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/2072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inclusivehumanities.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inclusivehumanities.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inclusivehumanities.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inclusivehumanities.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}