{"title":"M Leona Godin","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore the works of M Leona Godin, delving into themes of disability, accessibility, and the human experience. Perfect for readers seeking insightful and thought-provoking perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"there-plant-eyes-book-m-leona-godin-9781984898401","title":"There Plant Eyes","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Homer to Helen Keller, from \u003ci\u003eDune\u003c\/i\u003e to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation, M. Leona Godin explores the fascinating history of blindness, interweaving it with her own story of gradually losing her sight.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\" A thought-provoking mixture of criticism, memoir, and advocacy.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThere Plant Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e probes the ways in which blindness has shaped our ocularcentric culture, challenging deeply ingrained ideas about what it means to be \"blind.\" For millennia, blindness has been used to signify such things as thoughtlessness (\"blind faith\"), irrationality (\"blind rage\"), and unconsciousness (\"blind evolution\"). But at the same time, blind people have been othered as the recipients of special powers as compensation for lost sight (from the poetic gifts of John Milton to the heightened senses of the comic book hero Daredevil).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Godin-who began losing her vision at age ten-illuminates the often-surprising history of both the condition of blindness and the myths and ideas that have grown up around it over the course of generations. She combines an analysis of blindness in art and culture (from \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eStar Wars\u003c\/i\u003e) with a study of the science of blindness and key developments in accessibility (the white cane, embossed printing, digital technology) to paint a vivid personal and cultural history.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A genre-defying work, \u003ci\u003eThere Plant Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e reveals just how essential blindness and vision are to humanity's understanding of itself and the world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49745521213713,"sku":"NGR9781984898401","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49850903560465,"sku":"GOR013798809","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50162928091409,"sku":"CIN198489840XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50403682484497,"sku":"CIN198489840XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52464683155729,"sku":"GOR014530930","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/198489840X.jpg?v=1750805041"},{"product_id":"there-plant-eyes-book-m-leona-godin-9781524748715","title":"There Plant Eyes","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA probing, witty, and deeply insightful history of blindness--in Western culture and literature, and in the author's own experience--that ranges from Homer and Milton to Louis Braille, Helen Keller, and Stevie Wonder\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eM. Leona Godin begins her fascinating, wide-ranging study with an exploration of how the idea of sight is inextricably linked with knowledge and understanding; how blindness has, for millennia, been used as a metaphor for ignorance; and how, in metaphorical terms, blindness can also be made to suggest a door to artistic or spiritual transcendence. And she makes clear how all of this has obscured the reality of blindness, as a consequence of which many blind people have to deal not just with their disability but also with expectations that they possess superpowers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGodin illuminates the often surprising history of both the physiological condition and the ideas that have attached to it. She incorporates an analysis of blindness in art and literature (from \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eStar Wars\u003c\/i\u003e) and culture (assumptions of the blind as pure and magically wise) with a study of the science of blindness and key developments in accessibility (the white cane, embossed printing, digital technology) and a recounting of her own experience of gradually losing sight over the course of three decades. 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