Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities

Aravinda Bhat

Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
28 November 2024
Pages
194
ISBN
9781032507897

Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities

Aravinda Bhat

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.

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