Disability Studies and Spanish Culture: Films, Novels, the Comic and the Public Exhibition

by 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 representation of Down syndrome, autism, alexia/agnosia as well as childhood disability, its chapters combine close readings of a number of Spanish cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184631870X
• ISBN13: 9781846318702
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"