Disability studies and Spanish culture : films, novels, the comic and the public exhibition / Benjamin Fraser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fraser, Benjamin.

Series:

Representations (Liverpool, England)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with mental disabilities--Spain--Social conditions.

People with mental disabilities.

People with mental disabilities in literature.

People with mental disabilities in motion pictures.

Popular culture--Social aspects--Spain.

Popular culture.

Popular culture--Social aspects.

Social conditions.

Spain.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 192 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Disability Studies and Spanish Culture is the first book to apply the tenets of Disability Studies to the Spanish context. In particular, this work is an important corrective to existing cultural studies of disability in Spain that tend to largely ignore intellectual disabilities. Taking on the representation of Down syndrome, autism, alexia/agnosia as well as childhood disability, its chapters combine close readings of a number of Spanish cultural products (films, novels, the comic/graphic novel and the public exhibition) with a broader socio-cultural take on the state of disability in Spain. Fraser is just as comfortable with the work of disability theorists who advocate a social model of disability (such as Lennard J. Davis, Licia Carlson, Eva Feder Kittay, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder, and more) as he is with the analysis of film and literature in the Spanish context. While researchers and students of cinema will be particularly interested in the book's detailed analyses of the formal aspects of the films, comics, and novels discussed, readers from backgrounds in history, political science, and sociology will all be able to appreciate discussions of contemporary legislation, advocacy groups, cultural perceptions, models of social integration, and more. The book is directed, also, toward those readers more familiar with the growing field of Disability Studies itself - making the argument that the specific case of Spanish culture and society speaks to shifts in the social attitudes and theoretical understandings of disability more broadly considered. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Filming Down Syndrome 1

Yo, también (2009) and the Political Project of Disability Studies

Deciphering the Mixed Messages of León y Olvido (2004)

2 Envisioning Autism 34

Miguel Gallardo's Comic María y yo (2007)

Félix Fernández de Castro's Documentary María y yo (2010)

3 Narrating Childhood Disability 75

Salvador García Jiménez's Novel Angelicomio (1981)

Màrius Serra's Autobiographical Novel Quieto (2008)

4 Documenting Cognitive Disability 117

¿Qué tienes debajo del sombrero? (2006), by Lola Barrera and Iñaki Peñafiel

Más allá del espejo (2007), by Joaquín Jordà

Epilogue: Exhibiting Art 157

'Trazos Singulares' (2011) at the Nuevos Ministerios Metro Station

'Supergestor' (2011) and Other Comics by the Grupo AMÁS Associación Argadini's Literary Contests (2008-2010).

ISBN:

184631870X

9781846318702

OCLC:

809911269