Dramatizing Blindness

Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative

AvDevon Healey

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

Dramatizing Blindness: Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative engages with the cultural meanings and movements of blindness. 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-09-02
Mått:148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt:260 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Literary Disability Studies
Antal sidor:182
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030808136

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Devon Healey is Assistant Professor of Disability Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Canada. She has published papers in The Canadian Journal of Disability Studies and the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.

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“Healey seamlessly translates the lived experience across each of the five (V) acts and helpfully concludes each act with a theoretical intermission wherein Healey provides a comprehensive analysis for meaningful interpretation. ... I highly recommend this artistic masterpiece to any student, scholar, or novice … . Dramatizing Blindness has revolutionized what it means to write a dissertation—a sentiment that brings hope, excitement, and boundless potential for future works to be imagined, and considered … .” (Hilary Pearson, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, Vol. 13 (3), December, 2024)

Innehållsförteckning

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.