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Dramatizing Blindness: Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative engages with the cultural meanings and movements of blindness. This book addresses how blindness is lived in particular contexts-in offices of ophthalmology and psychiatry, in classrooms of higher education, in accessibility service offices, on the street, and at home. Taking the form of a play written in five acts, the narrative dramatizes how the main character's blindness is conceived of in the world and in the self. Each act includes an analysis where blind studies is explored in relation to disability studies. This work reveals the performative enactment of blindness that is lived in the public as well as in the private corners of the self, demonstrating how blindness is a form of perception. Devon Healey's work orients to blindness as a necessary and creative feature of the sensorium and shows how blindness is a form of perception.
List of contents
Introduction.- Act I The Genesis of Blindness.- Act II The School of Hard Knocks.- Act III Blindness in the Street.- Act IV At Home by Myself With You.- Act V The Spectre of a Home.- Conclusion: Awiatiing the Arrival of Blindness.
About the author
Devon Healey is Assistant Professor of Disability Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Canada. She has published papers in The Canadian Journal of Disability Studies and the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.
Report
Healey seamlessly translates the lived experience across each of the five (V) acts and helpfully concludes each act with a theoretical intermission wherein Healey provides a comprehensive analysis for meaningful interpretation. ... I highly recommend this artistic masterpiece to any student, scholar, or novice . Dramatizing Blindness has revolutionized what it means to write a dissertation a sentiment that brings hope, excitement, and boundless potential for future works to be imagined, and considered . (Hilary Pearson, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, Vol. 13 (3), December, 2024)
