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13 Portrait of the (Working) Writer as Blind (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

13 Portrait of the (Working) Writer as Blind (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on August 10, 2022August 10, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature, Meet The BlindKind of TPE

IN the previous chapter, “Sanctified by Affliction, or Not,” Godin discusses the discrimination and biases felt by many blind people in their personal lives—from dating and marriage and children—to the lack of representations in the ...

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“All the World’s a Stage: Thoughts on Erving Goffman” by Jim Knipfel

“All the World’s a Stage: Thoughts on Erving Goffman” by Jim Knipfel

Posted on August 8, 2022August 7, 2022Blindness and Literature, Meet The BlindKind of TPE

In 1988, a socio-linguist at the university of Pennsylvania posted a note on the departmental bulletin board announcing she had moved her late husband’s personal library into an unused office. Anyone who wanted any of ...

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Author Alice Eakes Interviewed by Leona Godin

Author Alice Eakes Interviewed by Leona Godin

Posted on July 29, 2022July 28, 2022Blindness and Literature, Meet The BlindKind of TPE

I first encountered Alice Eakes in her Huff Post opinion piece: “Yes, Blind People Read Books. We Write Them, Too.” I immediately knew I wanted to meet her. But I’m shy, so I quoted her ...

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The Country of the Blind by H. G. Wells

The Country of the Blind by H. G. Wells

Posted on July 10, 2022Blindness and Literature

I remember reading this story of sighted misadventure many years ago, and re-found it in my quest for another H. G. Wells story “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid,” which we published at Aromatica Poetica. ...

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12 Sanctified by Affliction, or Not (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

12 Sanctified by Affliction, or Not (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on June 22, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature, Down With Ocularcentrism, Meet The BlindKind of TPE

In the previous chapter, “Helen Keller in Vaudeville and in Love,” Godin incites  readers to think about how notions of the virginal blind oppressed Helen Keller and stifled her dreams of becoming a wife and ...

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11 Helen Keller in Vaudeville and in Love (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

11 Helen Keller in Vaudeville and in Love (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on May 29, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

In the previous endnotes, “The Tap, Tapping of Blind Travelers,” we spent time with the science of echolocation and the poetry and practicality of the tapping cane as well as a little of the history ...

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10 The Tap-Tapping of Blind Travelers (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

10 The Tap-Tapping of Blind Travelers (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on March 13, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

While the previous chapter, “Braille and His Invention,” investigated the history of the tactile alphabet that was so key in blind education, this chapter turns its attention to the low-tech technology of the white cane—as ...

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9 Braille and His Invention (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

9 Braille and His Invention (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on January 31, 2022January 30, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

In the previous chapter, “Performing Enlightenment,” Godin examined the origins—historical and philosophical—of the first school for the blind. We continue the tale of the early systematic education of the blind that began in Paris and ...

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8 Performing Enlightenment (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

8 Performing Enlightenment (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on January 13, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

In “Chapter 7: The Molyneux Man,” we investigated the philosophy and science of “restoring sight,” which does not always turn out to be the obvious gift that many sighted (and blind) people might think. In ...

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Charles Dickens * ‘American Notes’ * Boston & Laura Bridgman

Charles Dickens * ‘American Notes’ * Boston & Laura Bridgman

Posted on January 10, 2022Blindness and Literature

Reading American Notes is how Helen Keller’s mother learned that her deafblind child could be educated. In that travel narrative, Charles Dickens wrote about his meeting with Laura Bridgman (the first deafblind person to be ...

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