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.