The culture of corpolatry in post modernity and the physical handicap: a reflection on this binary logic
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https://doi.org/10.5902/1984686X33142Keywords:
Corpolatria, Body, Disability.Abstract
The present essay focuses on how the body is emphasized in postmodernity through colorpolatry, and how the body of the physically handicapped is devalued or not evidenced in this context. Its purpose is to discuss how colorpollation is strongly influenced and dictated by the media, exacerbating narcissism and placing the beautiful and referential physical form in evidence. It reflects on the binary logic between body worship and people with physical disabilities that are outside the standards of the perfect or referential body, pre-established by society. It discusses how stereotypes are culturally created and how they influence negatively or pejoratively in social minorities. We will theorize the problems faced by this social minority, based on cultural studies theorists. Finally, it shows how the body becomes an important object that presents or represents individuals in social relations from the other.
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