The Metanarrative of Blindness : A Re-reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing /
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
The University of Michigan Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 blindness deconstructed.