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What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea?

by Franz Fühmann , Elizabeth C. Hamilton
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781643150277
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Lever Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Lever Press
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  • Pages: 218
  • Original Price: USD 25.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 404 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Photoessays & Documentaries

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 f�r eine Insel in was f�r 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 F�hmann. 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.

Elizabeth C. Hamilton is Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Oberlin College and Associate Professor of German. Her scholarly and teaching interests center on disability as a lived experience and on cultural representations of disability, Universal Design in pedagogy, accessibility in higher education, and on East German literature and film.

Franz Fühmann (1922-1984) was an East German writer who published poetry, translations, essays, stories, and books for children and adults.

Dietmar Riemann (1950-) is a German photographer and author.

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