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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davidson, Michael, 1944-

Series:

Corporealities.

Corporealities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008.

Summary:

A major new work that probes questions of disability and aesthetics across a range of art forms, from Deaf poetry to film noir

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

1-282-59761-2

9786612597619

0-472-02544-9

OCLC:

923501944