Although the theme of blindness occurs frequently in literature,
literary criticism has rarely engaged the experiential knowledge of
people with visual impairments. "The Metanarrative of Blindness"
counters this trend by bringing to readings of twentieth-century
works in English a perspective appreciative of impairment and
disability. Author David Bolt examines representations of blindness
in more than forty literary works, including writing by Kipling,
Joyce, Synge, Orwell, H. G. Wells, Susan Sontag, and Stephen King,
shedding light on the deficiencies of these representations and
sometimes revealing an uncomfortable resonance with the
Anglo-American science of eugenics.
What connects these seemingly disparate works is what Bolt calls
"the metanarrative of blindness," a narrative steeped in mythology
and with deep roots in Western culture. Bolt examines literary
representations of blindness using the analytical tools of
disability studies in both the humanities and social sciences. His
readings are also broadly appreciative of personal, social, and
cultural aspects of disability, with the aim of bringing literary
scholars to the growing discipline of disability studies, and vice
versa. This interdisciplinary monograph is relevant to people
working in literary studies, disability studies, psychology,
sociology, applied linguistics, life writing, and cultural studies,
as well as those with a general interest in education and
representations of blindness.
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