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

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Bolt, David, 1966-
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Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]
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1 online resource (viii, 167 pages).
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English.
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 blindness deconstructed.
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9780472029587 (electronic bk.)
0472029584 (electronic bk.)
1306357918
9781306357913
9780472119066 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0472119060 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-161) and index.
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