The country of the blind a memoir at the end of sight
"A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author's transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn all he can about blindness as a distinct and rich culture all its own. We meet Andrew Leland as he's suspended in the strange liminal state of the soon-to-be blind: He...
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The end begins
- Part I: Phantom limp
- Seeing stars ; National blindness ; Blinded by definition ; Part II: The lost world
- The male gaze
- Camera obscura
- The library of babel
- The makers
- Part III: Structured discovery
- Against blindness ; Lady justice ; Half smiling ; Conclusion: Endgame.
