Accessible citizenships : disability, nation, and the cultural politics of greater Mexico /

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Accessible Citizenships examines Chicana/o cultural representations that conceptualize political community through images of disability. Working against the assumption that disability is a metaphor for social decay or political crisis, Julie Avril Minich analyzes literature, film, and visual art pos...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Minich, Julie Avril, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism.
Nationalism and literature > Mexico.
Nationalism and literature > United States.
People with disabilities in literature.
People with disabilities in motion pictures.
Sociology of disability.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine mexicaine > Histoire et critique.
Nationalisme et littérature > Mexique.
Nationalisme et littérature > États-Unis.
Personnes handicapées au cinéma.
Handicap > Aspect sociologique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
American literature > Mexican American authors.
Nationalism and literature.
Nationalisme et litterature > Mexique.
Nationalisme et litterature > États-Unis.
Handicapes > Dans la litterature.
Litterature mexicaine-americaine > Themes, motifs.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs d'origine mexicaine > Themes, motifs.
Mexico.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Enabling Aztlán: Arturo Islas, Jr. and Chicano cultural nationalism
  • My country was not like that: Cherríe Moraga, Felicia Luna Lemus, and national failure
  • So much life in the still waters: Alex Espinoza and the ideology of ability in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands
  • 'No nation for old men' racialized aging and border-crossing narratives by Guillermo Arriaga, Tommy Lee Jones and Oscar Casares
  • Overcoming the nation: Ana Castillo, Cecile Pineda, and the stakes of disability identity.

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