Disability studies and Spanish culture : : films, novels, the comic and the public exhibition / / Benjamin Fraser.
Disability Studies and Spanish Culture is the first book to apply the tenets of Disability Studies to the Spanish context. In particular, this work is an important corrective to existing cultural studies of disability in Spain that tend to largely ignore intellectual disabilities. Taking on the repr...
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| Superior document: | Representations: health, disability, culture and society |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Representations (Liverpool, England)
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 192 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). |
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| Other title: | Knowledge Unlatched. |
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| Summary: | Disability Studies and Spanish Culture is the first book to apply the tenets of Disability Studies to the Spanish context. In particular, this work is an important corrective to existing cultural studies of disability in Spain that tend to largely ignore intellectual disabilities. Taking on the representation of Down syndrome, autism, alexia/agnosia as well as childhood disability, its chapters combine close readings of a number of Spanish cultural products (films, novels, the comic/graphic novel and the public exhibition) with a broader socio-cultural take on the state of disability in Spain. Fraser is just as comfortable with the work of disability theorists who advocate a social model of disability (such as Lennard J. Davis, Licia Carlson, Eva Feder Kittay, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder and more) as he is with the analysis of film and literature in the Spanish context. While researchers and students of cinema will be particularly interested in the book's detailed analyses of the formal aspects of the films, comics, and novels discussed, readers from backgrounds in history, political science and sociology will all be able to appreciate discussions of contemporary legislation, advocacy groups, cultural perceptions, models of social integration and more. The book is directed, also, toward those readers more familiar with the growing field of Disability Studies itself-making the argument that the specific case of Spanish culture and society speaks to shifts in the social attitudes and theoretical understandings of disability more broadly considered. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1781386412 1781389268 1846317967 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Benjamin Fraser. |