Main description:

1) This book represents an important contribution to the field of blindness studies. 2) It discusses the journey of three blind authors Jorge Luis Borges, John M. Hull; and Stephen Kuusisto to argue for centrality of blindness in literary composition. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of disability studies across UK.

Contents:

Acknowledgements 1. theorizing the corporeality of writing 2. Borges's aesthetic of blindness 3. altered sensation and self-understanding in Borges's fictions 4. the lived experience of growing blind: the narrative subjectivity of hull 5. self-knowledge through interaction with the world 6. the poetical subjectivity of Kuusisto 7. uncovering an aesthetic dialectic in the memoirs of Kuusisto: narrative lacunae 8. artistic subjectivity, narrative choices, and the implied author: their relation as a function of bodily being Bibliography