Accessible Citizenships Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico

Author/Creator:: Minich, Julie Avril, (1977- ...).
Publication/Creation:: Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2014, cop. 2014
Format:: Book

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Full Title:: Accessible Citizenships Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico / Julie Avril Minich

Subjects:: 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

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.
Bibliography:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:: 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 post-1980 in which representations of non-normative bodies work to expand our understanding of what it means to belong to a political community. Minich shows how queer writers like Arturo Islas and Cherríe Moraga have reconceptualized Chicano nationalism through disabi
Language:: English
Language Note:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource (241 p.)
General Note:: Description based upon print version of record.