Representations of blind characters in contemporary literature

• Autor(a) principal: Mianes, Felipe Leão
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Karnopp, Lodenir Becker
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Pro-Posições (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/proposic/article/view/8658049
• topic: Representation; Visual disability; Cultural studies in education; Inclusion.; Representação; Deficiência visual; Estudos culturais em educação; Inclusão.

This article, linked to the field of Cultural Studies in Education, is part of the doctoral thesis of one of the authors and aims to analyze representations of people with visual disability in contemporary literature. Research data include the selection of work written by blind people or work with blind characters highlighted in the narrative. From the theoretical articulation to the analysis, we conclude that, although visual disability is historically represented as a defect that belittles the subjects, some blind authors represent blindness as a characteristic of subjects who have singular forms of being and of living in the world. Thus, we verified the appearance of other ways of representing blindness as being more than the idea of limitation or a problem to be corrected.