Caitlin Hernandez Archives - There Plant Eyes

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 ...

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 ...