Concerto for the left hand : disability and the defamiliar body / Michael Davidson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davidson, Michael, 1944-

Series:

Corporealities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2008]

Summary:

Concerto for the Left Hand is at the cutting edge of the expanding field of disability studies, offering a wide range of essays that investigate the impact of disability across various art forms-including literature, performance, photography, and film. Rather than simply focusing on the ways in which disabled persons are portrayed, Michael Davidson explores how the experience of disability shapes the work of artists and why disability serves as a vital lens through which to interpret modern culture.

Covering an eclectic range of topics-from the phantom missing limb in film noir to the poetry of American Sign Language-this collection delivers a unique and engaging assessment of the interplay between disability and aesthetics.

Contents:

Prelude: the pool

Introduction: concerto for the left hand

Strange blood: hemophobia and the unexplored boundaries of queer nation

Phantom limbs: film noir's volatile bodies

Hearing things: the scandal of speech in deaf performance

Tree tangled in tree: resiting poetry through ASL

Missing Larry: the poetics of disability in Larry Eigner

Nostalgia for light: being blind at the museum

Universal design: the work of disability in an age of globalization

Organs without bodies: transplant narratives in the global market

Afterword: disability and the defamiliar body

Notes

Works cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-265) and index.

ISBN:

9780472070336

0472070339

9780472050338

0472050338

OCLC:

173640816

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