Mobility and the Modern Intellectual: Translated Images from Early 20th-Century Literary Works in Spanish by Carmen Lyra and Luisa Luisi

This essay juxtaposes original translations of contrasting images from the novel En una silla de ruedas [In a Wheelchair] by Costa Rican writer Carmen Lyra and Poemas de la inmovilidad [Poems of Immobility] by Uruguayan writer Luisa Luisi to reveal how representations of intellectuals who are paraly...

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Main Author:	Laura Kanost
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	The Ohio State University Libraries 2018-02-01
Series:	Disability Studies Quarterly
Subjects:	Carmen Lyra En una silla de ruedas Luisa Luisi Poemas de la inmovilidad 20th-century Costa Rican literature 20th-century Uruguayan literature modernismo modernity paralysis wheelchair intellectual translation
Online Access:	http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/5861

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spelling	doaj-68b55d9d903b4360aaecc0d3e8a3c5cd2020-11-25T00:46:50ZengThe Ohio State University LibrariesDisability Studies Quarterly1041-57182159-83712018-02-0138110.18061/dsq.v38i1.58613969Mobility and the Modern Intellectual: Translated Images from Early 20th-Century Literary Works in Spanish by Carmen Lyra and Luisa LuisiLaura Kanost0Kansas State UniversityThis essay juxtaposes original translations of contrasting images from the novel En una silla de ruedas [In a Wheelchair] by Costa Rican writer Carmen Lyra and Poemas de la inmovilidad [Poems of Immobility] by Uruguayan writer Luisa Luisi to reveal how representations of intellectuals who are paralyzed might complicate discourses of the artist, social hygiene, and eugenics in early 20th-century Spanish America. Lyra portrays her protagonist's paralysis as a tragedy, but his disability is also the source of social mobility that allows the novel to depict marginalized members of Costa Rican society. Luisi contests modernista aesthetics of perfect forms, countering with a multifaceted exploration of inner space enabled by physical stillness. Through their depictions of hospitals, asylums, and sanitariums, both writers bear witness to bodies the modernizing project would prefer to hide, and imagine alternative forms of progress.http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/5861Carmen LyraEn una silla de ruedasLuisa LuisiPoemas de la inmovilidad20th-century Costa Rican literature20th-century Uruguayan literaturemodernismomodernityparalysiswheelchairintellectualtranslation
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title	Mobility and the Modern Intellectual: Translated Images from Early 20th-Century Literary Works in Spanish by Carmen Lyra and Luisa Luisi
title_short	Mobility and the Modern Intellectual: Translated Images from Early 20th-Century Literary Works in Spanish by Carmen Lyra and Luisa Luisi
title_full	Mobility and the Modern Intellectual: Translated Images from Early 20th-Century Literary Works in Spanish by Carmen Lyra and Luisa Luisi
title_fullStr	Mobility and the Modern Intellectual: Translated Images from Early 20th-Century Literary Works in Spanish by Carmen Lyra and Luisa Luisi
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title_sort	mobility and the modern intellectual: translated images from early 20th-century literary works in spanish by carmen lyra and luisa luisi
publisher	The Ohio State University Libraries
series	Disability Studies Quarterly
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publishDate	2018-02-01
description	This essay juxtaposes original translations of contrasting images from the novel En una silla de ruedas [In a Wheelchair] by Costa Rican writer Carmen Lyra and Poemas de la inmovilidad [Poems of Immobility] by Uruguayan writer Luisa Luisi to reveal how representations of intellectuals who are paralyzed might complicate discourses of the artist, social hygiene, and eugenics in early 20th-century Spanish America. Lyra portrays her protagonist's paralysis as a tragedy, but his disability is also the source of social mobility that allows the novel to depict marginalized members of Costa Rican society. Luisi contests modernista aesthetics of perfect forms, countering with a multifaceted exploration of inner space enabled by physical stillness. Through their depictions of hospitals, asylums, and sanitariums, both writers bear witness to bodies the modernizing project would prefer to hide, and imagine alternative forms of progress.
topic	Carmen Lyra En una silla de ruedas Luisa Luisi Poemas de la inmovilidad 20th-century Costa Rican literature 20th-century Uruguayan literature modernismo modernity paralysis wheelchair intellectual translation
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Mobility and the Modern Intellectual: Translated Images from Early 20th-Century Literary Works in Spanish by Carmen Lyra and Luisa Luisi

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