Blind Rage Letters to Helen Keller

Name: Blind Rage Letters to Helen Keller
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ISBN: 9781563682957

ISBN-10: 1563682958

ISBN-13: 9781563682957

Edition: 2006

Authors: Georgina Kleege

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As a young blind girl, Georgina Kleege repeatedly heard the refrain, "Why can't you be more like Helen Keller?" Kleege's resentment culminates in her book "Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller," an ingenious examination of the life of this renowned international figure using 21st-century sensibilities. Kleege's absorption with Keller originated as an angry response to the ideal of a secular saint, which no real blind or deaf person could ever emulate. However, her investigation into the genuine person revealed that a much more complex set of characters and circumstances shaped Keller's life. "Blind Rage" employs an adroit form of creative nonfiction to review the critical junctures in…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Publication date: 9/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



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