Author : Encarnación Juárez-Almendros
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1786948443
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)
Book Synopsis Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature by : Encarnación Juárez-Almendros
Download or read book Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature written by Encarnación Juárez-Almendros and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the concepts and role of women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts from the late fifteenth to seventeenth centuries from the perspective of feminist disability theories, concluding that paradoxically, femininity, bodily afflictions, and mental instability characterized the new literary heroes at the very time Spain was at the apex of its imperial power.