Reflections The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9780814747469
  • 01 februari 2002
  • 144 pagina's
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Since his conversion from Judaism, Charles Rich has sought to lead a contemplative life while still in world. He has shared the results of his meditations with a few intimate friends. It is these that make up this book-short, pithy reflections on a unique spiritual life.



In the 1820s, several years before Braille was invented, Therese-Adele Husson, a young blind woman from provincial France, wrote an audacious manifesto about her life, French society, and her hopes for the future. Through extensive research and scholarly detective work, authors Catherine Kudlick and Zina Weygand have rescued this intriguing woman and the remarkable story of her life and tragic death from obscurity, giving readers a rare look into a world recorded by an unlikely historical figure.
Reflections is one of the earliest recorded manifestations of group solidarity among people with the same disability, advocating self-sufficiency and independence on the part of blind people, encouraging education for all blind children, and exploring gender roles for both men and women. Resolutely defying the sense of "otherness" which pervades discourse about the disabled, Husson instead convinces us that that blindness offers a fresh and important perspective on both history and ourselves.
In rescuing this important historical account and recreating the life of an obscure but potent figure, Weygand and Kudlick have awakened a perspective that transcends time and which, ultimately, remaps our inherent ideas of physical sensibility

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Bindwijze
Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
01 februari 2002
Aantal pagina's
144
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Hoofdauteur
Therese-Adele Husson
Tweede Auteur
Catherine J. Kudlick
Co Auteur
Zina Weygand
Hoofdredacteur
Catherine J. Kudlick
Tweede Redacteur
Zina Weygand
Hoofduitgeverij
New York University Press

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Eerste Vertaler
Catherine Kudlick
Tweede Vertaler
Zina Weygand

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illustrated edition
Extra groot lettertype
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Product breedte
140 mm
Product hoogte
14 mm
Product lengte
216 mm
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Nee
Verpakking breedte
127 mm
Verpakking hoogte
203 mm
Verpakking lengte
203 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
272 g

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