Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities

Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities: Corporeal Refractions

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.

Themes Discussed

theorising the corporeality of writing

aesthetic turn to the experience of blindness

altered sensation and self-understanding

lived experience of growing blind

self-knowledge through interaction with the world

artistic subjectivity, narrative choices, and the ‘implied’ author

This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of blindness studies, disability studies, arts and aesthetics, literature, cultural studies, and philosophy.