Ebook {Epub PDF} Sight Unseen by Georgina Kleege

Sight Unseen, by Georgina Kleege, borrowed from the National Library Service for the Blind. Kleege is a blind professor of English and author residing in Berkeley. This book is her attempt to explain to the sighted world, and to herself, what sighted people see, and how it differs from what blind people see/5. "Sight Unseen" chronicles Kleege's gradual decision to drop the pretense in a sometimes frightened or hostile world that views sight as something essential. Kleege explores how all of our culture, (language, movies, literature, ETC.), has served to paint a less-than flattering view of those without sight/5(7). unlike much contemporary self-writing by disabled women, Georgina Kleege's Sight Unseen is more an indictment of negative representations of the blind, and of cultural mythologies about perception, eye contact, and normal behavior, than it is the story of one woman's experience of losing her sight (a).Cited by: 9.

Georgina Kleege's More Than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art () brings art history, philosophy, disability studies, and the politics of accessibility into productive discussion. The book proposes blind people and the experience of blindness are crucial parts of the creation, appreciation, and theorization of visual art and culture, and purposefully puts "blind people in dialogue. Sight Unseen Georgina Kleege, Author Yale University Press $24 (p) ISBN Buy this book. In this blend of memoir and pointed cultural criticism, novelist (Home for the Summer. Georgina Kleege (born ) is an American writer and Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Kleege was diagnosed as legally blind, with macular degeneration, at age Kleege has written classic essays and memoirs in the field of disability studies on blindness and disability, and teaches a range of classes at Cal Berkeley with a specialization in creative writing.

Georgina Kleege - Sight Unseen. I was pronounced legally blind in , when I was eleven, though my condition probably developed a year or two earlier. I have no memory of losing my sight. I imagine it took place so gradually that I was unaware of what I was not seeing. The only outward sign was that I began to read with the book very close to. "Sight Unseen" chronicles Kleege's gradual decision to drop the pretense in a sometimes frightened or hostile world that views sight as something essential. Kleege explores how all of our culture, (language, movies, literature, ETC.), has served to paint a less-than flattering view of those without sight. "This book offers an unexpected and unprecedented account of blindness and sight. Legally blind since the age of eleven, Georgina Kleege draws on her experiences to offer a detailed testimony of visual impairment - both her own view of the world and the world's view of the blind.".