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The Metanarrative of Blindness
David Bolt
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Description for The Metanarrative of Blindness
Hardcover. Sheds new light on literary representations of blindness from a disability studies perspective Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
Although the theme of blindness occurs frequently in literature, literary criticism rarely engages the experiential knowledge of people with visual impairments. The Metanarrative of Blindness counters this trend by bringing to readings of 20th-century works in English a perspective appreciative of impairment and disability. Author David Bolt examines representations of blindness in more than 40 literary works, including writing by Kipling, Joyce, Synge, Orwell, H. G. Wells, Susan Sontag, and Stephen King, shedding light on the deficiencies of these representations and sometimes revealing an uncomfortable resonance with the Anglo-American science of eugenics.
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Although the theme of blindness occurs frequently in literature, literary criticism rarely engages the experiential knowledge of people with visual impairments. The Metanarrative of Blindness counters this trend by bringing to readings of 20th-century works in English a perspective appreciative of impairment and disability. Author David Bolt examines representations of blindness in more than 40 literary works, including writing by Kipling, Joyce, Synge, Orwell, H. G. Wells, Susan Sontag, and Stephen King, shedding light on the deficiencies of these representations and sometimes revealing an uncomfortable resonance with the Anglo-American science of eugenics.
What connects these seemingly disparate works is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
Number of Pages
178
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472119066
SKU
V9780472119066
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About David Bolt
David Bolt is Associate Professor in Education Studies at Liverpool Hope University and the founding editor of the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies.
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