Disability Studies

Concerto for the Left Hand by Michael Davidson

Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body

Michael Davidson

Rights: World
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Concerto for the Left Hand: Practicing Disability Studies is a collection of essays by respected critic and scholar Michael Davidson that explores questions of disability and aesthetics across various art forms such as literature, performance, photography, and film. Davidson's work is at the cutting edge of the new and expanding area of disability studies in the arts. His topics in this volume include the phantom missing limb in film noir; the spreading panic over hemophilia, blood transfusions, and "hemophobia"; the theory that poetry exists beyond words—i.e., American Sign Language.

Michael Davidson is Professor of American Literature at the University of California San Diego and author of Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics, Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word, and The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community and Mid-Century.

June 2008
272 Pages