Libre Acceso : Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies / edited by Susan Antebi and Beth E. Jörgensen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jörgensen, Beth Ellen, editor.

Antebi, Susan, editor.

Series:

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.

SUNY series in latin American and Iberian thought and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body in literature.

People with disabilities in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Latin America.

Motion pictures.

People with disabilities in literature.

Spanish American literature--History and criticism.

Spanish American literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

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 García Márquez, João Guimarães Rosa, and others, as well as less well-known figures, including Mario Bellatin and Miriam Alves.

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Latin American Context for Disability Studies; Disability Studies in the Latin American Context; Disability Studies and Latin American Studies: A Transdisciplinary Approach; Concepts in Disability Studies; Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Latin Americanist Readings; Libre Acceso; Notes; Works Cited; Part I: Disability Life Writing and Constructions of the Self; Chapter 1 Blind Spot (Notes on Reading Blindness); brief retelling of a loss; a loss foretold; closing my eyes; the singular experience; wretched stuff; naming an I

losing an eye that never abandons youthe corporality of the world; attempting a memory; oblivion's certitude; involuntary trilogy; blood: sweet or fresh; drafting blindness; prior fermentations; women in love; groping in the dark; the curious monster; terror's superior form; suspicions; ocular intelligence; anx-eye-eties; a blindness that cannot be seen; victims, the vision-less, visionaries; blind love; upside down promises; hell; dependence; never stop; the mind's eye; fresh eye; what is irretrievable; Notes; Works Cited

Chapter 2 "La cara que me mira": Demythologizing Blindness in Borges's Disability Life WritingNotes; Works Cited; Chapter 3 Negotiating the Geographies of Exclusion and Access: Life Writing by Gabriela Brimmer and Ekiwah Adler-Beléndez; Notes; Works Cited; 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); Foundations of a Mexican Disability Discourse; A Feminist Ethnobotany; Localizing a Global Diagnostic Paradigm

Hybrids, Copies, and a Third (Age) CinemaImpressions of Loss; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 5 Cripping the Camera: Disability and Filmic Interval in Carlos Reygadas's Japón; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 6 Bodily Integrity, Abjection, and the Politics of Gender and Place in Roberto Bolaño's 2666; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 7 Violence, Injury, and Disability in Recent Latin American Film; Introduction; Disability in Global Contexts; War and Disability; Trauma and Disability; Conclusions; Notes; Works Cited; Part III: Embodied Frameworks: Disability, Race, Marginality

Chapter 8 Sô Candelário's Inheritance: Leprosy as a Marker of Racial Identity in João Guimarães Rosa's Grande Sertão: Veredas (1956)Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 9 "A solidão da escuridão": On Visual Impairment and the Visibility of Race; "Victims of a Physical Darkness"; Synesthetic Language and Afro-Brazilian Metaphor; Between black and Black in The Black Book of Colors; Coloring the World, Blackly; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 10 Mythicizing Disability: The Life and Opinions of (what is left of) Estamira; Foreword; Introduction

Ethical Criticism and Documentary: Is the Implied Author of Estamira Going Solo?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438459691

1438459696

OCLC:

931534196