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The metanarrative of blindness : a re-reading of twentieth-century Anglophone writing
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Title
The metanarrative of blindness : a re-reading of twentieth-century Anglophone writing / David Bolt.
ISBN
9780472119066
9780472029587
Publication
Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Variant and related titles
UMPEBC backlist 2011-2019.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 16, 2022
Series
Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pges 155-161) and index.
Contents
An embodied introduction
1. Community, controversy, and compromise: The terminology of visual impairment
2. Character designation: Normate reductionism and nominal displacement
3. Come-to-bed eyes: Ophthalmocentrism, ocularcentrism, and symbolic castration
4. "A hand of the blind ventures forth": The grope, the grip, and haptic perception
5. Social friction and science fiction: Alterity, avoidance, and constructs of contagiousness
6. Visual violation: Staring, panopticism, and the unseen gazer
7. Culturally assisted suicide: The mourning and melancholia of blindnedd deconstructed.
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