Things no longer there : a memoir of losing sight and finding vision / / Susan Krieger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910964806203321
• Autore: Krieger Susan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press/Terrace Books, c2005
• ISBN: 9786612269769; 9781282269767; 1282269763; 9780299208639; 029920863X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.76/63/092
• Soggetti: Aging; Feminists; Lesbian couples - Family relationships; Lesbians - California; Vision disorders
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-238).
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Vanishing Landscapes -- 1 Things No Longer There -- 2 The Vision Fire -- 3 Saving a Tree -- 4 Half Moon Bay -- Part 2: Inner Visions -- 5 Lesbian Invisibility -- 6 I See Her in My Mind -- 7 Lesbophobia -- Part 3: Blindness and Sight -- 8 Losing My Vision -- 9 Birdwatching before Sunrise -- 10 Blindspots -- Part 4: An Intimate Memory -- 11 The Lesbian-Straight Divide -- Conclusion -- Bibliographic Notes.
• Sommario/riassunto: Things No Longer There is a lovingly crafted collection of personal stories about the author's struggle toward enlightenment while losing her eyesight. It is also, more broadly, about invisible landscapes-places of the heart that linger long after they have disappeared from the world outside. In these ten brief tales and one novella-length intimate drama, Susan Krieger takes us on a series of adventures in vision, a journey both inward and to various parts of the country. We travel with her as ; she goes birdwatching before sunrise in the New Mexico desert, learns to walk with a white cane, revisits an old love, returns to a summer camp of her youth, and reflects on the nature of blindness and sight. Krieger's touching memoir explores the ways that outer landscapes may change and sight may be lost, but inner visions persist, giving meaning, jarring the senses with a very different picture than what appears before the eyes. This book will reward both the general reader and those interested in disability studies, feminist ethnography, and lesbian studies.