Dramatizing Blindness : Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative / / by Devon Healey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910495226803321
• Autore: Healey Devon
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021
• ISBN: 3-030-80811-4; 9783030808112; 3030808114; 9783030808105; 3030808106
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2021.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 pages)
• Collana: Literary Disability Studies, , 2947-7417
• Disciplina: 305.9081
• Soggetti: Literature - Philosophy; Drama; Performing arts; Theater; People with disabilities - Education; Creative writing; Literary Theory; Theatre and Performance Arts; Education and Disability; Creative Writing
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Act I The Genesis of Blindness -- Act II The School of Hard Knocks -- Act III Blindness in the Street -- Act IV At Home by Myself With You -- Act V The Spectre of a Home -- Conclusion: Awiatiing the Arrival of Blindness.
• Sommario/riassunto: Dramatizing Blindness: Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative engages with the cultural meanings and movements of blindness. This book addresses how blindness is lived in particular contexts—in offices of ophthalmology and psychiatry, in classrooms of higher education, in ; accessibility service offices, on the street and at home. Taking the form of a play written in five acts, the narrative dramatizes how the main character’s blindness is conceived of in the world and in the self. Each act includes an analysis where blind studies is explored in relation to disability studies. This work reveals the performative enactment of blindness that is lived in the public as well as in the private corners of the self, demonstrating how blindness is a form of perception. Devon Healey’s work orients to blindness as a necessary and creative feature of the sensorium and shows how blindness is a form of perception.