Where Blindness is Not (?) a Disability
Alison Sinclair's Darkborn Trilogy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4275618 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Derek Newman-Stille (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 43-58 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mosaic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-1276 • E-ISSN: 1925-5683 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/mos.2013.0032 |
| OpenAlex | W2085587105 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Perhaps more than realism, fantasy provides an opportunity to examine how ideas of bodily normalcy dominate and restrict our society. Fantasy can explore the cultural understanding and construction of blindness as a disability. Although blindness is often constructed as a disability, Alison Sinclair creates a world in which blindness is normative
Art · Blindness · Disability studies · Fantasy · Literature · Normative · Political science · Realism · Sociology · Trilogy · Visual arts · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Gender Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction · Optometry
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |