Concerto for the left hand : disability and the defamiliar body

Davidson, Michael 1944- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780472070336 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780472050338 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0472070339 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0472050338 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xxiii, 280 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-265) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.