UID:
almahu_9949139177102882
Format:
XII, 182 p.
,
online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 2021.
ISBN:
9783030808112
Series Statement:
Literary Disability Studies
Content:
Dramatizing Blindness: Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative engages with the cultural meanings and movements of blindness. This book addresses how blindness is lived in particular contexts-in offices of ophthalmology and psychiatry, in classrooms of higher education, in accessibility service offices, on the street and at home. Taking the form of a play written in five acts, the narrative dramatizes how the main character's blindness is conceived of in the world and in the self. Each act includes an analysis where blind studies is explored in relation to disability studies. This work reveals the performative enactment of blindness that is lived in the public as well as in the private corners of the self, demonstrating how blindness is a form of perception. Devon Healey's work orients to blindness as a necessary and creative feature of the sensorium and shows how blindness is a form of perception.
Note:
Introduction -- Act I The Genesis of Blindness -- Act II The School of Hard Knocks -- Act III Blindness in the Street -- Act IV At Home by Myself With You -- Act V The Spectre of a Home -- Conclusion: Awiatiing the Arrival of Blindness.
In:
Springer Nature eBook
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783030808105
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783030808129
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783030808136
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-80811-2
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80811-2
