The metanarrative of blindness : a re-reading of twentieth-century Anglophone writing /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bolt, David, 1966-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2014.
Series:	Corporealities.
Subjects:	Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism. Blind in literature. Blindness in literature. People with disabilities in literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.