Reframing Disability through an Ecocritical Perspective in Sara Mesa's Cara de pan

Maryanne L. Leone ^[1]
1. [1] Assumption College
  
  Assumption College
  
  City of Worcester, Estados Unidos
Localización: REGS: Revista de estudios de género y sexualidades = Journal of gender and sexuality studies, ISSN-e 2637-997X, ISSN 2637-9961, Vol. 45, Nº. 1, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Re-imagining Female Disabilities in Luso-Hispanic Women's Cultural Production), págs. 161-184
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- This article establishes a dialogue between disability studies and ecocriticism to analyze Sara Mesa's novel Cara de pan (2018), which narrates the relationship between a thirteen-year-old girl bullied at school and a fifty-four-year-old man with an atypical appearance who fixates on limited topics. The analysis examines the hegemony of normativity and dominant social narratives about disability, gender, and sexuality. Grounded in the idea that people with disabilities actively intervene in their environment, the essay argues that the characters' environmental empathy supports the need for a diversity of experiences and perspectives, positively resituating disability and autism.