Concerto for the left hand : disability and the defamiliar body / Michael Davidson.
A major new work that probes questions of disability and aesthetics across a range of art forms, from Deaf poetry to film noir.
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | Corporealities.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.