Sight unseen /
Kleege, Georgina, 1956-
Sight unseen / Georgina Kleege. - New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©1999. - 1 online resource (x, 233 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-233).
Pt. i. Blindness and Culture -- 1. Call It Blindness -- 2. Blind Nightmares -- 3. In Oedipus' Shadow -- pt. ii. Blind Phenomenology -- 4. The Mind's Eye -- 5. Here's Looking at You -- 6. A Portrait of the Artist by His Blind Daughter -- pt. iii. Blind Reading: Voice, Texture, Identity -- 7. Voices in My Head -- 8. Up Close, In Touch.
"This book offers an unexpected and unprecedented account of blindness and sight. Legally blind since the age of eleven, Georgina Kleege draws on her experiences to offer a detailed testimony of visual impairment - both her own view of the world and the world's view of the blind." "Kleege describes the negative social status of the blind, analyzes stereotypes of the blind that have been perpetuated by movies, and discusses how blindness has been portrayed in literature. She vividly conveys the visual experience of someone with severely impaired sight and explains what she can see and what she cannot (and how her inability to achieve eye contact - in a society that prizes that form of connection - has affected her). Finally she tells of the various ways she reads, and the freedom she felt when she stopped concealing her blindness and acquired skills, such as reading braille, as part of a new, blind identity. Without sentimentality or cliches, Kleege offers us the opportunity to imagine life without sight."--Jacket.
English.
0585372004 (electronic bk.) 9780585372006 (electronic bk.) (alk. paper)
98038773
Blind.
People with visual disabilities.
Blindness.
Blindness--Psychological aspects.
Visually Impaired Persons
Blindness
Blindness--psychology
Personnes aveugles.
Cécité.
Cécité--Aspect psychologique.
blind (people)
blindness.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--People with Disabilities.
Blind.
Blindness.
Blindness--Psychological aspects.
People with visual disabilities.
Blindheit
Psychosoziale Belastung
Blindheid.
Psychologische aspecten.
Filosofische aspecten.
Waarneming.
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Social Sciences.
Disabilities.
BLIND.
Blind--Psychological aspects.
Physically handicapped.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HV1593 / .K528 1999eb
362.4/1
Sight unseen / Georgina Kleege. - New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©1999. - 1 online resource (x, 233 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-233).
Pt. i. Blindness and Culture -- 1. Call It Blindness -- 2. Blind Nightmares -- 3. In Oedipus' Shadow -- pt. ii. Blind Phenomenology -- 4. The Mind's Eye -- 5. Here's Looking at You -- 6. A Portrait of the Artist by His Blind Daughter -- pt. iii. Blind Reading: Voice, Texture, Identity -- 7. Voices in My Head -- 8. Up Close, In Touch.
"This book offers an unexpected and unprecedented account of blindness and sight. Legally blind since the age of eleven, Georgina Kleege draws on her experiences to offer a detailed testimony of visual impairment - both her own view of the world and the world's view of the blind." "Kleege describes the negative social status of the blind, analyzes stereotypes of the blind that have been perpetuated by movies, and discusses how blindness has been portrayed in literature. She vividly conveys the visual experience of someone with severely impaired sight and explains what she can see and what she cannot (and how her inability to achieve eye contact - in a society that prizes that form of connection - has affected her). Finally she tells of the various ways she reads, and the freedom she felt when she stopped concealing her blindness and acquired skills, such as reading braille, as part of a new, blind identity. Without sentimentality or cliches, Kleege offers us the opportunity to imagine life without sight."--Jacket.
English.
0585372004 (electronic bk.) 9780585372006 (electronic bk.) (alk. paper)
98038773
Blind.
People with visual disabilities.
Blindness.
Blindness--Psychological aspects.
Visually Impaired Persons
Blindness
Blindness--psychology
Personnes aveugles.
Cécité.
Cécité--Aspect psychologique.
blind (people)
blindness.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--People with Disabilities.
Blind.
Blindness.
Blindness--Psychological aspects.
People with visual disabilities.
Blindheit
Psychosoziale Belastung
Blindheid.
Psychologische aspecten.
Filosofische aspecten.
Waarneming.
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Social Sciences.
Disabilities.
BLIND.
Blind--Psychological aspects.
Physically handicapped.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HV1593 / .K528 1999eb
362.4/1