Keywords
Disability
Surrealism
Romanticism
Abstract
This essay analyzes Juan García Ponce’s relationship with disability following the onset and diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in the 1960s. It examines his distancing from the medicalization of this experience through certain metaphorical uses of illness derived from Romanticism, to create a discursive space from which to carry out his literary practice during the second half of his life. Through an analysis of literary correspondence, unpublished diaries, interviews, and essays, this process of negotiation by the Mexican author is reconstructed –one that critics have not yet considered.
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