Libre Acceso: Latin American Literature and Film Through Disability Studies

By Beth Ellen Jorgensen

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 Garc a M rquez, Jo o Guimar es Rosa, and others, as well as less well-known figures, including Mario Bellatin and Miriam Alves.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438459688
• ISBN13: 9781438459684
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher