Libre acceso : Latin American literature and film through disability studies / edited by Susan Antebi and Beth E. Jörgensen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Antebi, Susan, editor.

Jorgensen, Beth Ellen, editor.

Series:

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish American literature--History and criticism.

Spanish American literature.

People with disabilities in literature.

Motion pictures--Latin America.

Motion pictures.

Latin America.

People with disabilities in motion pictures.

Human body in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 278 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]

Summary:

Libre Acceso stages an innovative encounter between disciplines that have remained quite separate: Latin American literary, film, and cultural studies and disability studies. It offers a much-needed framework to engage the representation, construction, embodiment, and contestation of human differences, and provides tools for the urgent resignification of a robust and diverse Latin American literary and filmic tradition. The contributors discuss such topics as impairment, trauma, illness and the body, performance, queer theory, subaltern studies, and human rights, while analyzing literature and film from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and Peru. They explore these issues through the work of canonical figures Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Joao Guimaraes Rosa, and others, as well as less well-known figures, including Mario Bellatin and Miriam Alves. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Disability Life Writing and Constructions of the Self

Chapter 1 Blind Spot: (Notes on Reading Blindness) / Lina Meruane Meruane, Lina 29

Chapter 2 "La cara que me mira": Demythologizing Blindness in Borges's Disability Life Writing / Kevin Goldstein Goldstein, Kevin 47

Chapter 3 Negotiating the Geographies of Exclusion and Access: Life Writing by Gabriela Brimmer and Ekiwah Adler-Beléndez / Beth E. Jörgensen Jörgensen, Beth E. 63

Part II Global Bodies and the Coloniality of Disability

Chapter 4 Otras competencias: Ethnobotany, the Badianus codex, and Metaphors of Mexican Memory Loss and Disability in Las buenas hierbas (2010) / Ryan Prout Prout, Ryan 83

Chapter 5 Cripping the Camera: Disability and Filmic Interval in Carlos Reygadas's Japon / Susan Antebi Antebi, Susan 103

Chapter 6 Bodily Integrity, Abjection, and the Politics of Gender and Place in Roberto Bolaños 2666 / Victoria Diekman-Burnett Diekman-Burnett, Victoria 121

Chapter 7 Violence, Injury, and Disability in Recent Latin American Film / Victoria L. Garrett Garrett, Victoria L. 135

Part III Embodied Frameworks: Disability, Race, Marginality

Chapter 8 Sô Candelários Inheritance: Leprosy as a Marker of Racial Identity in Joao Guimaráes Rosa's Grande Sertáo; Veredas (1956) / Valéria M. Souza Souza, Valéria M. 155

Chapter 9 "A solidáo da escuridáo": On Visual Impairment and the Visibility of Race / Melissa E. Schindler Schindler, Melissa E. 173

Chapter 10 Mythicizing Disability: The Life and Opinions of (what is left of) Estamira / Nicola Gavioli Gavioli, Nicola 191

Chapter 11 "En ninguna parte": Narrative Performances of Mental Illness in El portero by Reinaldo Arenas and Corazón de skitaleitz / Antonio José Ponte Ponte, Antonio José, Laura Kanost Kanost, Laura 209

Part IV Imagining Other Worlds

Chapter 12 The Disability Twist in Stranger Novels by Mario Bellatin and Carmen Boullosa / Emily Hind Hind, Emily 229

Chapter 13 The Blur of Imagination: Asperger's Syndrome and One Hundred Years of Solitude / Juan Manuel Espinosa Espinosa, Juan Manuel 245.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438459677

143845967X

OCLC:

910309812