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
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 disability images. She further addresses
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-219) and index
Notes
In English
Print version record
MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies Winner, 2013