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Going Blind - Mara Faulkner

Going Blind

A Memoir

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Buch | Softcover
241 Seiten
2009
Excelsior Editions (Verlag)
978-1-4384-2668-6 (ISBN)
CHF 41,95 inkl. MwSt
Memoir and meditation on blindness.
Finalist for the 2010 Minnesota Book Award presented by the Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library

Mara Faulkner grew up in a family shaped by Irish ancestry, a close-to-the-bone existence in rural North Dakota, and the secret of her father's blindness—along with the silence and shame surrounding it. Dennis Faulkner had retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic disease that gradually blinded him and one that may blind many members of his family, including the author. Moving and insightful, Going Blind explores blindness in its many permutations—within the context of the author's family, more broadly, as a disability marked by misconceptions, and as a widely used cultural metaphor. Mara Faulkner delicately weaves her family's story into an analysis of the roots and ramifications of the various metaphorical meanings of blindness, touching on the Catholic Church of the 1940s and 1950s, Japanese internment, the Germans from Russia who dominated her hometown, and the experiences of Native people in North Dakota. Neither sentimental nor dispassionate, the author asks whether it's possible to find gifts when sight is lost.

Mara Faulkner, OSB, is Associate Professor of English at the College of St. Benedict. She is the author of Protest and Possibility in the Writing of Tillie Olsen and Born of Common Hungers: Benedictine Women in Search of Connections.

Acknowledgments

1. Blind Spot

2. Blinders

3. Blind: Out of sight, out of the way, secret, obscure

4. Turn a Blind Eye

5. Blind Faith

6. Blind Prejudice

7. Blind: Unable or unwilling to perceive or understand

8. Blind: Insensible, unaware, lacking intelligence and consciousness, narrow-minded with no openings or passages for light

9. Blind: To dazzle, to dim by excess of light

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Erscheint lt. Verlag 9.7.2009
Reihe/Serie Excelsior Editions
Zusatzinfo Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort Albany, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 299 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
ISBN-10 1-4384-2668-2 / 1438426682
ISBN-13 978-1-4384-2668-6 / 9781438426686
Zustand Neuware
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