Dramatizing Blindness: Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative 2021 Edition Contributor(s): Healey, Devon (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030808106 ISBN-13: 9783030808105 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $113.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | Drama - Performing Arts |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.85 lbs) 182 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |