UWP Lecturers A Question about Sight and Blindness in Literature

[haggerty at ucr.edu]

How about Guy Hocquenghem, Love in Relief.  That's a great (gay) novel about a blind narrator.

George

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>Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:22:34 -0700
>From: "Cheri Langdell" <cheril at ucr.edu>  
>Subject: A Question about Sight and Blindness in Literature  
>To: <gsa-english at lists.ucr.edu>, <englecturers at lists.ucr.edu>, "Vorris Nunley" <Vorris.Nunley at ucr.edu>, "Andrea Denny-Brown" <Andrea.Denny-Brown at ucr.edu>, "Carole Fabricant" <cfabs at mindspring.com>, "Carole Fabricant" <carole.fabricant at ucr.edu>, "Carole-Anne Tyler" <Caroleanne.tyler at ucr.edu>, "Deborah Willis" <Deborah.Willis at ucr.edu>, "George Haggerty" <George.Haggerty at ucr.edu>, "James Tobias" <James.Tobias at ucr.edu>, "Jennifer Doyle" <jennifer.doyle at ucr.edu>, "Joe Childers" <joseph.childers at ucr.edu>, "John Briggs" <John.Briggs at ucr.edu>, "John Ganim" <John.Ganim at ucr.edu>, "Katherine Kinney" <KATHERINE.KINNEY at ucr.edu>, "Keith Harris" <keith.harris at ucr.edu>, "Kimberly Devlin" <devlinucr at earthlink.net>, "Michelle Raheja" <michelle.raheja at ucr.edu>, "Stanley Stewart" <Stanley.Stewart at ucr.edu>, "Steve Axelrod" <Steven.Axelrod at ucr.edu>, "Susan Zieger" <susan.zieger at ucr.edu>, "Tiffany Lopez" <Tiffany.Lopez at ucr.edu>, "Traise Yamamoto" <Traise.Yamamoto at ucr.edu>, "'Rise Axelrod'" <rise.ax!
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>Everyone,
>
>Greetings! I am now writing a book on blindness and sight in literature, 
>film, and criticism:  I wonder if any of you can recommend any literary 
>works or films or art in which the blind appear or which have interesting 
>passages on sight or blindness, imagery or themes of sight and/or blindness, 
>etc.?
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>If you reply, please send me an email at cherilangdell at gmail.com
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>Thanks in advance, and wishing you a good rest of your summer,
>
>Cheri Langdell
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