Libre Acceso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies(SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)

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

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: A Latin American Context for Disability Studies Susan Antebi and Beth E. Jorgensen Part I. Disability Life Writing and Constructions of the Self 1. Blind Spot: (Notes on Reading Blindness) Lina Meruane 2. "La cara que me mira": Demythologizing Blindness in Borges's Disability Life Writing Kevin Goldstein 3. Negotiating the Geographies of Exclusion and Access: Life Writing by Gabriela Brimmer and Ekiwah Adler-Belendez Beth E. Jorgensen Part II. Global Bodies and the Coloniality of Disability 4. Otras competencias: Ethnobotany, the Badianus codex, and Metaphors of Mexican Memory Loss and Disability in Las buenas hierbas (2010) Ryan Prout 5. Cripping the Camera: Disability and Filmic Interval in Carlos Reygadas's Japon Susan Antebi 6. Bodily Integrity, Abjection, and the Politics of Gender and Place in Roberto Bolano's 2666 Victoria Dickman-Burnett 7. Violence, Injury, and Disability in Recent Latin American Film Victoria L. Garrett Part III. Embodied Frameworks: Disability, Race, Marginality 8. So Candelario's Inheritance: Leprosy as a Marker of Racial Identity in Joao Guimaraes Rosa's Grande Sertao: Veredas (1956) Valeria M. Souza 9. "A solidao da escuridao": On Visual Impairment and the Visibility of Race Melissa E. Schindler 10. Mythicizing Disability: The Life and Opinions of (what is left of) Estamira Nicola Gavioli 11. "En ninguna parte": Narrative Performances of Mental Illness in El portero by Reinaldo Arenas and Corazon de skitaleitz by Antonio Jose Ponte Laura Kanost Part IV. Imagining Other Worlds 12. The Disability Twist in Stranger Novels by Mario Bellatin and Carmen Boullosa Emily Hind 13.The Blur of Imagination: Asperger's Syndrome and One Hundred Years of Solitude Juan Manuel Espinosa Epilogue #YoSoy Robert McRuer Contributors Index

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. Jorgensen 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.

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