Deconstructing the Albino Other: A Critique of Albinism Identity in Media - Couverture rigide

Miller, Niya Pickett

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1793630879 ISBN 13 : 9781793630872

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2020

Synopsis

Deconstructing the Albino Other: A Critique of Albinism Identity in Media discusses how American popular culture and communication about albinism, including movie characters and memes, have worked to create and maintain a negative trope of albinism that situates people with albinism (PWA) as a monolithic other. Niya Pickett Miller demonstrates that consequently, PWA must construct their own identities of albinism, highlighting the salient aspects of themselves as they see fit with no valid representation to look to for guidance. Thus, Pickett Miller argues, self-defining for PWA is a key rhetorical action taken to rearticulate albinism identity. Rather than focusing on scientific and medical lenses of analysis, this book positions albinism as a social construct through which a broader understanding of otherness can be achieved, using the negative influence of pop culture's otherization of PWA as a case study with broader implications, including how medical conditions can be visually troped to isolate the other outside of society's realm of normalcy. Scholars of media studies, race studies, sociology, rhetoric, and the medical humanities will find this book particularly useful.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Niya Pickett Miller is assistant professor of communication studies in the Department of Communication and Media at Samford University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1793630879
• ISBN 13: 9781793630872
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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