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1 online resource (xi, 209 pages) |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references (page 209). |
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Consciousness on trial -- Full body contact -- Working the pump -- The hand's memory. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
As a young blind girl, Georgina Kleege repeatedly heard the refrain, "Why can't you be more like Helen Keller?" Kleege's resentment culminates in her book Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller, an ingenious examination of the life of this renowned international figure using 21st-century sensibilities. Kleege's absorption with Keller originated as an angry response to the ideal of a secular saint, which no real blind or deaf person could ever emulate. However, her investigation into the genuine person revealed that a much more complex set of characters and circumstances shaped Kelle's life. Blind Rage employs an adroit form of creative nonfiction to review the critical junctures in Keller's life. The simple facts about Helen Keller are well-known: how Anne Sullivan taught her deaf-blind pupil to communicate and learn; her impressive career as a Radcliffe graduate and author; her countless public appearances in various venues, from cinema to vaudeville, to campaigns for the American Foundation for the Blind. But Kleege delves below the surface to question the perfection of this image. Through the device of her letters, she challenges Keller to reveal her actual emotions, the real nature of her long relationship with Sullivan, with Sullivan's husband, and her brief engagement to Peter Fagan. Kleege's imaginative dramatization, distinguished by her depiction of Keller's command of abstract sensations, gradually shifts in perspective from anger to admiration. Blind Rage criticizes the Helen Keller myth for prolonging an unrealistic model for blind people, yet it appreciates the individual who found a practical way to live despite the restrictions of her myth. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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In English. |
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Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 -- Miscellanea.
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Keller, Helen, 1880-1968. |
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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Kleege, Georgina, 1956- Correspondence.
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Deafblind women -- United States -- Biography -- Miscellanea.
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Deafblind women. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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Blind -- Psychology -- Miscellanea.
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Blind -- Psychology. |
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Electronic books.
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Personal correspondence.
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Personal correspondence.
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Biographies.
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kleege, Georgina, 1956- Blind rage. Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2006 1563682958 9781563682957 (DLC) 2006014539 (OCoLC)68373294 |
| ISBN |
9781563683718 (electronic book) |
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1563683717 (electronic book) |
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1563682958 (alkaline paper) |
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9781563682957 (alkaline paper) |
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