Going Blind: A Memoir

Awards:   Commended for Minnesota Book Award (Memoir) 2010
Author:   Mara Faulkner
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9781438426686


Pages:   241
Publication Date:   09 July 2009
Format:   Paperback
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  • Commended for Minnesota Book Award (Memoir) 2010

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Author:   Mara Faulkner
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   Excelsior Editions
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.299kg
ISBN:  

9781438426686


ISBN 10:   1438426682
Pages:   241
Publication Date:   09 July 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Blind Spot 2. Blinders 3. Blind: Out of sight, out of the way, secret, obscure 4. Turn a Blind Eye 5. Blind Faith 6. Blind Prejudice 7. Blind: Unable or unwilling to perceive or understand 8. Blind: Insensible, unaware, lacking intelligence and consciousness, narrow-minded with no openings or passages for light 9. Blind: To dazzle, to dim by excess of light Notes Sources

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...[a] beautiful book ... a good read ... thought-provoking. - H-Net Reviews (H-Disability) ...a memoir with many layers ... Faulkner has clearly done extensive research and she expertly unfolds her findings and her confusions [sic]. She doesn't just tell readers about her experience, but invites them to share in making sense of her contemplations and discoveries. While this is not a light read, it is an extremely rewarding one. - Irish America ...this is not merely an autobiography, but a critical chronicle about multiple conceptions of 'blindness.' So, in Going Blind, the reader could also find a piece with ethnographic value-a book in which analysis of social behavior and fieldwork play core roles. - Metapsychology An incredible story that stays with you long after finishing the final page. - Emily Rapp, author of Poster Child: A Memoir This is a remarkable, multidimensional, and accomplished memoir. The author renders the lives of her family members with candor, sensitivity, and integrity. - G. Thomas Couser, author of Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing


""...[a] beautiful book ... a good read ... thought-provoking."" - H-Net Reviews (H-Disability) ""...a memoir with many layers ... Faulkner has clearly done extensive research and she expertly unfolds her findings and her confusions [sic]. She doesn't just tell readers about her experience, but invites them to share in making sense of her contemplations and discoveries. While this is not a light read, it is an extremely rewarding one."" - Irish America ""...this is not merely an autobiography, but a critical chronicle about multiple conceptions of 'blindness.' So, in Going Blind, the reader could also find a piece with ethnographic value-a book in which analysis of social behavior and fieldwork play core roles."" - Metapsychology ""An incredible story that stays with you long after finishing the final page."" - Emily Rapp, author of Poster Child: A Memoir ""This is a remarkable, multidimensional, and accomplished memoir. The author renders the lives of her family members with candor, sensitivity, and integrity."" - G. Thomas Couser, author of Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing


This is a remarkable, multidimensional, and accomplished memoir. The author renders the lives of her family members with candor, sensitivity, and integrity. -- G. Thomas Couser


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Mara Faulkner, OSB, is Associate Professor of English at the College of St. Benedict. She is the author of Protest and Possibility in the Writing of Tillie Olsen and Born of Common Hungers: Benedictine Women in Search of Connections.

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