Staring Back

Author : Kenny Fries
Publisher : Plume Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staring Back written by Kenny Fries and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disability experience has, until very recently, been marginalized, stereotyped, and ignored in literature. Now, through the vehicles of nonfiction, poetry, fiction, and drama, Staring Back is the first anthology to open the landscape of the disabled experience for exploration and discussion.The presence of such well-known authors as Lucy Grealy, John Hockenberry, and Marilyn Hacker in this anthology gives immediate lie to the notion that disability is a limitation to insight and productivity. But just as importantly, Staring Back challenges us to look anew at the disabilities of FDR and Matisse; the lives of Helen Keller and Frida Kahlo; the work of Stephen Hawking. It urges us to redefine what is meant by ?cure,? to understand hidden disabilities, and even to find humor in ways that defy our expectations.If there is one theme that binds this diverse body of work, aside from its subject matter, it is the theme of human connection?a connection with the past, with each other, with our bodies, and with ourselves. As Kenny Fries writes in his introduction, ?Throughout history, those who live with disabilities have been silenced by those who did not want to hear what we have to say. We have also been silenced by our own fear...the fear that if we told our stories, people would say, ?See, it isn?t worth it. You would be better off dead.?? Staring Back emphatically demonstrates the power of these writers? stories to overcome that fear and to break that silence.

Author : James Elkins
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156004978
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Object Stares Back written by James Elkins and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study on how our eyes function with our brains examines the irrational elements of physical sight and concludes that human seeing transforms both the viewer and the object being viewed.

Author : Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199886814
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staring written by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on examples from art, media, fashion, history and memoir, cultural critic Rosemarie Garland-Thomson tackles a basic human interaction which has remained curiously unexplored, the human stare. In the first book of its kind, Garland-Thomson defines staring, explores the factors that motivate it, and considers the targets and the effects of the stare. While borrowing from psychology and biology to help explain why the impulse to stare is so powerful, she also enlarges and complicates these formulations with examples from the realm of imaginative culture. Featuring over forty illustrations, Staring captures the stimulating combination of symbolic, material and emotional factors that make staring so irresistible while endeavoring to shift the usual response to staring, shame, into an engaged self-consideration. Elegant and provocative, this unique study advances new ways of thinking about visuality and the body that will appeal to readers who are interested in the overlap between the humanities and human behaviors.

Author : Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195326792
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staring written by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on examples from art, media, fashion, history and memoir, the author tackles a basic human interaction which has remained curiously unexplored, the human stare. She defines staring, explores the biological and psychological factors that motivate it, and considers the targets and the effects of the stare.

Author : Jesse Busdegan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781952681677
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Demon Staring Back at Me written by Jesse Busdegan and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Demon Staring Back at Me is a raw and real account of the perils that many face in dealing with toxic relationships. Jesse takes you through his story of real life events in a vulnerable and authentic way. His bravery in sharing his truth is commendable and inspiring as many could relate to his experience in dealing with the crazy-making of narcissistic abuse. His story showcases the real and raw facets of one man's journey in understanding and rebuilding from the grip of darkness. His bravery in sharing his own mistakes and the mechanisms from such as carefully orchestrated tactics to break down his resolve and psyche are truly commendable. His journey is inspiring in what it means to truly find freedom and truth from the chaos of evil.

Author : Jillian Weise
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593760744
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Amputee's Guide to Sex written by Jillian Weise and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A paradigm-shifting collection about disability and desire, recontextualized with an introduction by one of our most provocative contemporary poets. When Jillian Weise wrote The Amputee’s Guide to Sex, it was with the intention of changing the conversation around disability; essentially, she was tired of seeing "cripples" portrayed as asexual characters. The collection that resulted is a powerful lesson in desire, the body, pain, and possession. These poems interrogate medical language and history, imagine Mona Lisa in a wheelchair, rewrite Elizabeth Bishop’s poem "In the Waiting Room," address a lover’s arsonist ex-girlfriend, and show the prosthesis as the object of male curiosity and lust. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called the book a “charged and daring debut” and described Jillian Weise as an "agile and powerful poet . . . speaking boldly and compassionately about a little-discussed subject that becomes universal in her careful hands." In the years since its first publication, our culture continues to grapple with questions limned in this collection. In a new introduction, Weise revisits and recontextualizes her work, revealing its urgency to our present moment. What are the challenges of speaking "for" a community? How to resist the institutionalization of ableist paradigms? How are atypical bodies silenced? Where do our corporeal selves intersect with our technologies?

Author : Jenna Vinson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813591023
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embodying the Problem written by Jenna Vinson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dominant narrative of teen pregnancy persuades many people to believe that a teenage pregnancy always leads to devastating consequences for a young woman, her child, and the nation in which they reside. Jenna Vinson draws on feminist and rhetorical theory to explore how pregnant and mothering teens are represented as problems in U.S. newspapers, political discourses, and teenage pregnancy prevention campaigns since the 1970s. Vinson shows that these representations prevent a focus on the underlying structures of inequality and poverty, perpetuate harmful discourses about women, and sustain racialized gender ideologies that construct women’s bodies as sites of national intervention and control. Embodying the Problem also explores how young mothers resist this narrative. Analyzing fifty narratives written by young mothers, the recent #NoTeenShame social media campaign, and her interviews with thirty-three young women, Vinson argues that while the stigmatization of teenage pregnancy and motherhood does dehumanize young pregnant and mothering women, it is at the same time a means for these women to secure an audience for their own messages. More information on the author's website (https://jennavinson.com)

Author : Natali Clarke
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039168396
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staring at Medusa written by Natali Clarke and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-09-13 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma Jarvie is your typical teenager—sure, she’s an Iranian American immigrant living in Santa Ana, CA, a neighborhood becoming notorious for its growing violence. But like every teenage girl, she worries about boys, tries to keep her grades up in school, and shops for makeup with her best friend, Julie. All right, so things aren’t as they seem. So she doesn’t have a father in the picture, and her mother is slowly losing a battle to something unseen. So her older sister says she’ll be applying to a distant university, leaving Emma to take care of their mother alone. So she’s turned to the streets to try and make something out of nothing from her riches-to-rags life. She can still handle this. But when she turns to Julie for support, she encounters Julie’s seductive ex-boyfriend, Joseph, and everything she’s worked so hard to build starts crumbling apart. Danger is closer to her than ever—but with building frustration about her constant struggles at school and at home, she’s willing to risk it all. Based on true events and infused with tenderness and dark humor, Staring at Medusa is a meditation on family and friendship, isolation and belonging, violence and care, as Emma navigates being a typical teenager against a backdrop of unique circumstances.

Author : Thanhha Lai
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702251178
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside Out & Back Again written by Thanhha Lai and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving to America turns H&à's life inside out. For all the 10 years of her life, H&à has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. H&à and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, H&à discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape, and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.

Author : Rupert Sheldrake
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448183952
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sense Of Being Stared At written by Rupert Sheldrake and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-03-31 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever had a premonition, the feeling of being watched, or a telepathic experience? Renowned biologist Rupert Sheldrake explores the intricacies of the mind and discovers that our perceptive abilities are stronger than many of us could have imagined.