Disability studies and spanish culture : films, novels, the comic and the public exhibition
Fecha
2013Autor
Fraser, Benjamin
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Resumen
In the introduction that launches his landmark 1997 reader on the
subject, Lennard J. Davis notably frames Disability Studies as a
political project, embracing an approach that envisions the field as
at once ‘an academic field of inquiry and an area of political inquiry’
(‘Introduction’ 1). In my view, this is yet another way of embracing
the critical aim of cultural studies as described by one of the eclectic
(and still forming) discipline’s founders, Raymond Williams. In 1986,
Williams retrospectively summed up the premise of cultural studies
as ‘the refusal to give priority to either the project or the formation—or, in older terms, the art or the society’ (152). In other words,
the critic needs to grapple at once with the discourse of art (formal
aspects, content, style, tone…) and also with the context in which a
given work of art is produced (social, cultural, economic, political…)—
while attempting to give equal weight to each. In this study, this
means attending not merely to issues regarding the cultural representations of disability—which are, of course, already political—but also
to research foregrounding the real-world circumstances in which disabled people find themselves as they strive to find love and engage in
meaningful work.
Rather than attempting an exhaustive treatment of the representation of disability in Spanish cultural products, this book is an attempt
to bring a Disability Studies perspective to bear on selected Spanish
materials as diverse as fiction films, documentaries, novels, and even
the sequential art of the graphic novel/comic. While this book is
undoubtedly a piece of humanities scholarship, it nonetheless establishes a selective dialogue with existing research on disability from
a wide spectrum of approaches (philosophical, historical, social).
Palabras clave
Disability Studies; Spanish CultureCreative Commons
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