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Concerto for the left hand : disability and the defamiliar body
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- ISBN: 0472050338
- ISBN: 9780472050338
- ISBN: 0472070339
- ISBN: 9780472070336
- ISBN: 0472025449
- ISBN: 9780472025442
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxiii, 280 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2008.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
| System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Action Note: | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | People with disabilities SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities People with disabilities Behinderung Behinderung Kreativität Kunst Künstler |
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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, making Concerto for the Left Hand one of the smartest books to date in disability studies."
---Lennard Davis, University of Illinois, Chicago"Moving elegantly among social theorists and cultural texts, Davidson exemplifies and propels an ethical-aesthetic model for criticism. Davidson asks continuously and with a committed intensity 'where a disability ends and the social order begins' . . . this book brings the study of poetry and poetics into the twenty-first century."
---Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Temple UniversityConcerto for the Left Hand is 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 than simply focusing on the ways in which disabled persons are portrayed, Michael Davidson explores how the experience of disability shapes the work of artists and why disability serves as a vital lens through which to interpret modern culture. Covering an eclectic range of topics---from the phantom missing limb in film noir to the poetry of American Sign Language---this collection delivers a unique and engaging assessment of the interplay between disability and aesthetics.
Written in a fluid, accessible style, Concerto for the Left Hand will appeal to both specialists and general audiences. With its interdisciplinary approach, this book should appeal not only to scholars of disability studies but to all those working in minority art, deaf studies, visual culture, and modernism.
Michael Davidson is Professor of American Literature at the University of California, San Diego. His other books includeGuys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics and Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material World.
- University of Michigan
"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, making Concerto for the Left Hand one of the smartest books to date in disability studies."
---Lennard Davis, University of Illinois, Chicago"Moving elegantly among social theorists and cultural texts, Davidson exemplifies and propels an ethical-aesthetic model for criticism. Davidson asks continuously and with a committed intensity 'where a disability ends and the social order begins' . . . this book brings the study of poetry and poetics into the twenty-first century."
---Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Temple UniversityConcerto for the Left Hand is 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 than simply focusing on the ways in which disabled persons are portrayed, Michael Davidson explores how the experience of disability shapes the work of artists and why disability serves as a vital lens through which to interpret modern culture. Covering an eclectic range of topics---from the phantom missing limb in film noir to the poetry of American Sign Language---this collection delivers a unique and engaging assessment of the interplay between disability and aesthetics.
Written in a fluid, accessible style, Concerto for the Left Hand will appeal to both specialists and general audiences. With its interdisciplinary approach, this book should appeal not only to scholars of disability studies but to all those working in minority art, deaf studies, visual culture, and modernism.
Michael Davidson is Professor of American Literature at the University of California, San Diego. His other books includeGuys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics and Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material World.
