Libre acceso
Subtitle: Latin American literature and film through disability studies
By: edited by Susan Antebi and Beth E. Jörgensen
Series: SUNY series in latin American and Iberian thought and culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781438459677; 9781438459691
Subjects: Motion pictures; Human body in literature; People with disabilities in motion pictures; Spanish American literature; History and criticism; People with disabilities in literature
Description: "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 differencs, 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 fugures Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, João Guimarães Rosa, and others, as well as less well-known figures, including Mario Bellatin and Miriam Alves"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.