Publisher's Synopsis
Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities: Corporeal Refractions makes an important contribution to the field of blindness studies by highlighting the centrality of blindness in literary compositions. It presents a critical interpretation of selected prose writings by three blind authors: Argentine poet, short story writer, and essayist Jorge Luis Borges; Australian religious educator and diarist John M. Hull; and the American memoirist and poet Stephen Kuusisto.
The volume discusses themes like
- theorising the corporeality of writing
- aesthetic turn to the experience of blindness
- altered sensation and self-understanding
- lived experience of growing blind
- self-knowledge through interaction with the world
- artistic subjectivity, narrative choices, and the 'implied' author
This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of blindness studies, disability studies, arts and aesthetics, literature, cultural studies, and philosophy.
