02935nam 2200529 450 991055869590332120230621140608.01-64315-028-610.3998/mpub.12467134(CKB)5580000000302862(OCoLC)1294513611(MdBmJHUP)musev2_100666(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/81570(MiU)10.3998/mpub.12467134(EXLCZ)99558000000030286220220202h20212021 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWhat kind of island in what kind of sea /Franz Fühmann ; Elizabeth C. Hamilton, Translator ; Dietmar Riemann, PhotographerAmherst, Massachusetts :Lever Press,[2021]©20211 online resource (1 online resource xii, 206 pages) : illustrations, photographs1-64315-027-8 Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-205).The dignity of cognitively disabled people and the ethics of representing their lives are at the heart of an extraordinary yet little-known book first published in the former German Democratic Republic. Was für eine Insel in was für einem Meer, or What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea (Rostock, Hinstorff, 1986) depicts residents of a church-run institution for people with cognitive disabilities in astonishing black-and-white photographs by Dietmar Riemann and in a probing, poignant essay by esteemed German writer Franz Fühmann. This important text, which moved from a medical model to a historical and cultural view of disability as an aspect of human identity and experience, is translated into English for the first time by Elizabeth Hamilton and includes reflections on the book and its impact. As fuller, global histories of disability are now being written, What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea opens an essential window onto a formerly shuttered world, demonstrating the power of the arts to hone our capacity to perceive and appreciate human difference.People with mental disabilitiesGermanyPictorial worksPeople with mental disabilitiesGermanyPeople with mental disabilitiesPictorial worksGermany (East)fastHistory.fastPeople with mental disabilitiesPeople with mental disabilitiesPeople with mental disabilities362.3Fühmann Franz388896Riemann DietmarHamilton Elizabeth C.Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),EYMEYMBOOK9910558695903321What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea2907177UNINA