Blind narrations and artistic subjectivities : corporeal refractions / Arvinda Bhat.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

©2024

xiii, 194 pages ; 24 cm

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral) - English and Foreign Languages University, 2016.

"Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities: Corporeal Refractions makes an important contribution to the field of blindness studies by highlighting the centrality of blindness in literary compositions. It presents a critical interpretation of selected prose writings by three blind authors: Argentine poet and essayist Jorge Luis Borges; Australian religious educator and diarist John M. Hull; and the American memoirist and poet Stephen Kuusisto. The volume discusses themes like theorizing the corporeality of writing aesthetic turn to the experience of blindness altered sensation and self-understanding lived experience of growing blind self-knowledge through interaction with the world artistic subjectivity, narrative choices, and the implied author This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of blindness studies, disability studies, arts and aesthetics, literature, cultural studies, and philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Bhat, Arvinda. Blind narrations and artistic subjectivities Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023

English

November 10, 2023

Includes bibliographical references and index.