Accessible Citizenships - 9781439910702

Accessible CitizenshipsDisability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico\nAuthor(s): Julie Avril Minich\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S., United States\nImprint: Temple University Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9781439910702, 978-1439910702\nSynopsis\nAccessible 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 [url] shows how queer writers like Arturo Islas and Cherre Moraga have reconceptualized Chicano nationalism through disability images. She further addresses how the [url] border and disabled bodies restrict freedom and movement. Finally, she confronts the changing role of the nation-e