Libre Acceso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies

by Susan Antebi (Editor), Beth E. Jörgensen (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438459677
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	02/01/2016
Series:	SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Susan Antebi is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Toronto and the author of Carnal Inscriptions: Spanish American Narratives of Corporeal Difference and Disability. Beth E. Jörgensen is Professor of Spanish at the University of Rochester. She is the author of Documents in Crisis: Nonfiction Literatures in Twentieth-Century Mexico and the coeditor (with Ignacio Corona) of The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle: Theoretical Perspectives on the Liminal Genre, both also published by SUNY Press.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: A Latin American Context for Disability Studies Susan Antebi Beth E. Jörgensen 1

Part I Disability Life Writing and Constructions of the Self

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

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

Chapter 3 Negotiating the Geographies of Exclusion and Access: Life Writing by Gabriela Brimmer and Ekiwah Adler-Beléndez Beth E. Jörgensen 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 83

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

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

Chapter 7 Violence, Injury, and Disability in Recent Latin American Film Victoria L. Garrett 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 155

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

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

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

Part IV Imagining Other Worlds

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

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

Epilogue #YoSoy Robert McRuer 259

Contributors 265

Index 269

Editorial Reviews

"A volume quite aware of its unique positioning, Libre Acceso is a major contribution to the interdisciplinary field of Latin American disability studies." — Hispania

From the Publisher