Sight unseen
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Author
Publication
1999 - Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, Connecticut
Language
English
Word Count
58,250 words, Guess
Page Count
233 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL24765697M
- ISBN-139780300076806
- ISBN-100300076800
- OCLC Control Number39679088
- OCLC Control Number48139595
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- OCLC Control Number98038773
- OCLC Control Number59402483
- OCLC Control Numbersightunseen00klee
- Library of Congress Control Number98038773
Classifications
- DDC362.4/1
- LCCHV1593 .K528 1999
Description
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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