Concerto for the Left Hand Disability and the Defamiliar Body

Name: Concerto for the Left Hand Disability and the Defamiliar Body
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ISBN: 9780472050338

ISBN-10: 0472050338

ISBN-13: 9780472050338

Edition: 2008

Authors: Michael Davidson

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"Professor Davidson---an accomplished literary critic---offers a focused and balanced analysis of poetry, film, and the arts honed with his excellent knowledge of the latest advances in disability studies. He is brilliant at reading texts in a sophisticated and aesthetically pleasurable way, makingConcerto for the Left Handone of the smartest books to date in disability studies." ---Lennard Davis, University of Illinois, Chicago Concerto for the Left Handis at the cutting edge of the expanding field of disability studies, offering a wide range of essays that investigate the impact of disability across various art forms---including literature, performance, photography, and film. Rather…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 6/9/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.122

Poet and scholar MICHAEL DAVIDSON is Distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body.



Prelude: The Pool


Introduction: Concerto for the Left Hand



Strange Blood: Hemophobia and the Unexplored Boundaries of Queer Nation



Phantom Limbs: Film Noir's Volatile Bodies



Hearing Things: The Scandal of Speech in Deaf Performance



Tree Tangled in Tree: Resiting Poetry through ASL



Missing Larry: The Poetics of Disability in Larry Eigner



Nostalgia for Light: Being Blind at the Museum



Universal Design: The Work of Disability in an Age of Globalization



Organs without Bodies: Transplant Narratives in the Global Market


Afterword: Disability and the Defamiliar Body


Notes


Works Cited


Index