Concerto for the Left Hand : Disability and the Defamiliar Body.
Title:
Concerto for the Left Hand : Disability and the Defamiliar Body.
Author:
Davidson, Michael.
ISBN:
9780472025442
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (277 pages)
Series:
Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
Contents:
Contents -- Prelude: The Pool -- Introduction: Concerto for the Left Hand -- 1. Strange Blood: Hemophobia and the Unexplored Boundaries of Queer Nation -- 2. Phantom Limbs: Film Noir's Volatile Bodies -- 3. Hearing Things: The Scandal of Speech in Deaf Performance -- 4. Tree Tangled in Tree: Resiting Poetry through ASL -- 5. Missing Larry: The Poetics of Disability in Larry Eigner -- 6. Nostalgia for Light: Being Blind at the Museum -- 7. Universal Design: The Work of Disability in an Age of Globalization -- 8. Organs without Bodies: Transplant Narratives in the Global Market -- Afterword: Disability and the Defamiliar Body -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
A major new work that probes questions of disability and aesthetics across a range of art forms, from Deaf poetry to film noir.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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