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Libre Acceso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies

Libre Acceso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies

Antebi, Susan
Jörgensen, Beth E.

Hardcover

Series: Suny Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture

Literary CriticismFilm StudiesLatino Studies

ISBN10: 143845967X
ISBN13: 9781438459677
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Feb 1 2016
Pages: 290
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Analyzes the diverse roles and pervasive presence of disability in Latin American literature and film.

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.

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