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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456093903321

Autore

Davidson Michael

Titolo

Concerto for the Left Hand [[electronic resource] ] : Disability and the Defamiliar Body

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-59761-2

9786612597619

0-472-02544-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Collana

Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability

Disciplina

362.4

Soggetti

People with disabilities

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Prelude: The Pool; Introduction: Concerto for the Left Hand; 1. Strange Blood: Hemophobia and the Unexplored Boundaries of Queer Nation; 2. Phantom Limbs: Film Noir's Volatile Bodies; 3. Hearing Things: The Scandal of Speech in Deaf Performance; 4. Tree Tangled in Tree: Resiting Poetry through ASL; 5. Missing Larry: The Poetics of Disability in Larry Eigner; 6. Nostalgia for Light: Being Blind at the Museum; 7. Universal Design: The Work of Disability in an Age of Globalization; 8. Organs without Bodies: Transplant Narratives in the Global Market

Afterword: Disability and the Defamiliar Body Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A major new work that probes questions of disability and aesthetics across a range of art forms, from Deaf poetry to film noir