This book explores manifestations of physical disability in Spanish American narrative fiction and performance, from José Martí's late nineteenth century crónicas, to Mario Bellatín's twenty-first century novels, from the performances of Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco to the testimonio and filmic depictions of Gabriela Brimmer.

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SUSAN ANTEBI is assistant professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside, USA.

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Acknowledgements Introduction Caliban and Coney Island. Corporeal Difference in the Crónicas of José Martí and José Juan Tablada La doble y única mujer: The Doubled Bodies of Pablo Palacio and Jorge Velasco Mackenzie Corporeal Difference as Ethnicity Performance and Revenge Photographic Fictions and Corporeal Geographies Gabriela Brimmer: Enabling testimonio