[nabs-l] Research: Representation of blindness in literature

[christopher nusbaum]

Yes, the book is called The Seeing Summer. Great book! Thank you for
reminding me about Jenny in the Odyssey series! I loved how Focus on
the Family portrayed her as an independent blind person—one of the few
in literature and film.

Chris Nusbaum

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On Apr 25, 2013, at 8:47 PM, Joe <jsoro620 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Focus on the Family featured a blind character in their Adventures in Odyssey series. Not literature, strictly speaking, though the radio show did produce some films and book editions, I believe. Also, I forget the exact name of the book, but was it something like The Seeing Summer? It's about the girl who is kidnapped and held for ransom.--Joe
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> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Carrie Gilmer
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 3:54 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Research: Representation of blindness in literature
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> Hello-
> Two of my best friends from college were international students from Sweden, over 25 years ago. we are still very close.  Asked them what they knew. they both said they can recall absolutely no blind character in lit anywhere from childhood or young adulthood, and both also had never seen a blind person until sometime after coming to U.S. ...may be a difficult  or sparse topic.
> best of luck
> Carrie
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> On Apr 23, 2013, at 9:55 PM, Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't know of anything specifically Swedish, but I've seen several
>> depictions of blindness depicted in English literature.  There is one
>> book called, "Hannah," where a blind girl wants to go to school.  She
>> seems super dependent in there to me, but the book is also set in the
>> 19th century so back then that might have been more common.  In the
>> end she participates in some sort of harvesting contest to try to
>> raise money to buy a brailler, and when she can't fathom how she's won
>> she finds that the town kept putting their picked fruits/vegitables in
>> her basket instead of their own.  There is also a book I've come
>> across called, "From Charlie's Point of View, although I haven't
>> really read it.
>>
>> On 4/23/13, Leye-Shprintse <leyeshprintse at ymail.com> wrote:
>>> BS"D
>>>
>>> Dear NABS,
>>>
>>> I'm a blind student and it's time for me to start writing my thesis.
>>> I've chosen to write about the representation of blindness in Swedish
>>> children's and youth literature. I wonder if you've some ideas where
>>> I can rasearch information to my thesis, do you know if someone else
>>> have written about this subject? I think it's a very important
>>> subject but since Swedish isn't a big language I can't find so much
>>> information here. I'm happy for all ideas you can give me! It feels
>>> so big to write a thesis so I'm a bit overwhelmed! Forgive my bad English!
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Leye-Shprintse
>>>
>>> Envoyé de mon iPad
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>> Kaiti
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