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El Cuerpo Femenino Enfermo y Discapacitado en la Literatura Hispanoamericana y Árabe Contemporánea
Morsy, Doaa Serag Mohamed
Morsy, Doaa Serag Mohamed
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2025-08
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https://doi.org/10.34944/0pse-8g05
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The Sick and Disabled Female Body in Latin American and Arab Literature is a comparative study that discusses the different forms of how society and the medical sector contribute to the production of sick and disabled female bodies in the narratives of Argentinian, Chilean and Egyptian female authors. To analyze this topic, this dissertation uses Disability Studies as a theoretical framework, with an interdisciplinary approach that engages with Fat Studies and Trauma Studies. Specifically, it draws on the contributions of Robert McRuer, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Susan Wendell, Mia Mingus, Alison Kafer, and others. While this study explores blindness as a commonly understood disability, in an attempt to bridge the gap in the study of illnesses and disabilities in literature, this dissertation explores fatness, anorexia and necrophilia of the female body–taboo topics that have been rarely studied. This dissertation analyzes Muerta de hambre (2005) by Argentinian writer Fernanda García Lao, Sangre en el ojo (2012) by Chilean writer Lina Meruane, and Necrofilia (2011) Egyptian writer Shirin Hanae to examine the societal challenges and the forced medical intervention imposed on women in vulnerable situations. Furthermore, it investigates how the interplay between these factors forces these women to develop illnesses and disabilities. Drawing from Disability Studies concepts, such as compulsory able-bodiedness, disability by association, crip space, crip time, fit, misfit, academic ableism, as well as fat resistance from Fat Studies, and wound from Trauma Studies, this study provides a comprehensive analysis of the processes that transform a healthy female bodies into sick and disabled ones.
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