Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities

<p><strong><em>Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities: Corporeal Refractions </em></strong>makes an important contribution to the field of blindness studies by highlighting the centrality of blindness in literary compositions. It presents a critical interpretation of selected prose writings by three blind authors: Argentine poet, short story writer, and essayist Jorge Luis Borges; Australian religious educator and diarist John M. Hull; and the American memoirist and poet Stephen Kuusisto.</p><p>The volume discusses themes like</p><ul> <li>theorising the corporeality of writing</li> <li>aesthetic turn to the experience of blindness</li> <li>altered sensation and self-understanding</li> <li>lived experience of growing blind</li> <li>self-knowledge through interaction with the world</li> <li>artistic subjectivity, narrative choices, and the ‘implied’ author</li> </ul><p>This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of blindness studies, disability studies, arts and aesthetics, literature, cultural studies, and philosophy.</p>