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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2015
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- THE VISUAL METAPHOR OF DISABILITY IN SARAH LEAVITT’S GRAPHIC MEMOIR TANGLES: A STORY ABOUT ALZHEIMER’S, MY MOTHER, AND ME Renata Lucena Dalmaso Lengua y Literatura comics Disability Alzheimer’s graphic memoir visual metaphor Borrowing George Lakof 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. h e genre of comics, as a crossdiscursive medium, is prolii c 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. h is article points to ways in which Sarah Leavitt’s graphic memoir explores the potential of visual metaphor as an empowering narrative device in terms of representing disability. 2015 artículo científico 2175-8026 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=478347658007 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=4783 Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies application/pdf Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies (Brasil) Num.2 Vol.68