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17 Constructing Blind Pride out of Ancient and Evolutionary Blind Memes (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

17 Constructing Blind Pride out of Ancient and Evolutionary Blind Memes (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on February 22, 2023'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature, Down With Ocularcentrism

In the previous chapter, “The Invisible Gorilla and Other Inattentions,” Dr. M. Leona Godin considers the blind scientist and what blindness can offer science. In this final chapter, she discusses negotiating blind memes—meaning “cultural replicators,” ...

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16 The Invisible Gorilla and Other Inattentions (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

16 The Invisible Gorilla and Other Inattentions (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on January 12, 2023'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Down With Ocularcentrism

In the previous chapter, “The Scylla and Charybdis of Stigma and Superpowers,” M. Leona Godin explored how entrenched ableism and ocularcentrism encourages the sighted world to think of blind people in extremes: either super-sensed or ...

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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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6 Darkness Visible (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

6 Darkness Visible (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on October 3, 2021August 5, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

John Milton is in some ways the heart of There Plant Eyes. After all, the title comes from a passage in his 1667 Paradise Lost–read the short passage from the famous invocation to the Muse ...

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1 Homer’s Blind Bard (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

1 Homer’s Blind Bard (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on July 28, 2021August 6, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

In the first chapter of There Plant Eyes, we travel back to the formative years of blindness in the Western cultural imagination: namely, the text of The Odyssey (traditionally ascribed to Homer), where so many ...

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Introduction: Seeing and Not-Seeing (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Introduction: Seeing and Not-Seeing (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on July 21, 2021August 6, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

The introduction to There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness presents Godin’s earliest moments with vision loss when she was ten and visited so many baffled eye doctors. But the autobiographical quickly ...

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