Concerto for the left hand [electronic resource] : disability and the defamiliar body / Michael Davidson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: CorporealitiesPublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008.Description: xxiii, 280 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.4 22
LOC classification:
  • HV1552 .D38 2008eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-265) and index.

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.

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