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

[Kaiti Shelton]

If you google "Good Reads" you can find tons of recommendations for
books.  A lot of the ones in that big list I wrote out came from a
Goodreads list called "books with awesome blind characters," I'll post
the link to the list if I can find it again, but searching yourself
may be bweneficial too as I'm not exactly clear on what you're
specifically looking for.

Best of luck.

On 4/25/13, Julie McGinnity <kaybaycar at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a book called Girl, Stolen by April Henry that is about a
> blind girl who is kidnapped.  Jane Eyre is a good one in my opinion.
> But if you're looking for something a bit more about blind characters
> adjusting to blindness you can always find Follow my Leader.  Blind
> Sighted is another more recent one.  If you want something a little
> more fantastical, there is a blind character in Libba Bray's new book
> the Diviners.  There is also Beastly, which was made into a movie a
> couple years ago.  But those are more modern and American(except for
> Jane Eyre).  Even so, they might be interesting reads for you.
>
> On 4/25/13, 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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Carrie
>> Gilmer
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 3:54 PM
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Research: Representation of blindness in literature
>>
>> 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
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> 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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> National Association of Guide dog Users board member,  National
> Federation of the Blind performing arts division secretary,
> Missouri Association of Guide dog Users President,
> and Guiding Eyes for the Blind graduate 2008
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> everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal
> life."
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Kaiti