Disabled Bodies In Early Modern Spanish Literature
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Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature
Author | : Encarnación Juárez-Almendros |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2017-12-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1786948443 |
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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.