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Representations of blind characters in contemporary literature1 3 Mais informações sobre o lema “nada sobre nós sem nós” em http://www.bengalalegal.com/nada-sobre-nos. Acesso em: 18 set. 2019. ,2 4 Translated from Portuguese. 3 5 Translated from Portuguese.

Abstract

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.

Keywords
representation; visual disability; cultural studies in education; inclusion

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