What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea?

The dignity of cognitively disabled people and the ethics of representing their lives are at the heart...
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SKU: 9781643150277
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Author: Franz Fühmann
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea? by Fühmann, Franz

What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea?

€45,23

What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea?

€45,23
Author: Franz Fühmann
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The dignity of cognitively disabled people and the ethics of representing their lives are at the heart of an extraordinary yet little-known book first published in the former German Democratic Republic. Was für eine Insel in was für einem Meer, or What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea (Rostock, Hinstorff, 1986) depicts residents of a church-run institution for people with cognitive disabilities in astonishing black-and-white photographs by Dietmar Riemann and in a probing, poignant essay by esteemed German writer Franz Fühmann. This important text, which moved from a medical model to a historical and cultural view of disability as an aspect of human identity and experience, is translated into English for the first time by Elizabeth Hamilton and includes reflections on the book and its impact. As fuller, global histories of disability are now being written, What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea opens an essential window onto a formerly shuttered world, demonstrating the power of the arts to hone our capacity to perceive and appreciate human difference.

Author: Franz Fühmann
Publisher: Lever Press
Published: 04/25/2022
Pages: 218
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9781643150277

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