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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. Jörgensen 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.

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Introduction: A Latin American Context for Disability Studies
Susan Antebi and Beth E. Jörgensen

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. Jörgensen

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 Japón
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 Sertão: Veredas (1956)
Valéria 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 Corazón 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
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