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Author Fühmann, Franz, author.

Title What kind of island in what kind of sea / Franz Fühmann ; Elizabeth C. Hamilton, Translator ; Dietmar Riemann, Photographer.

Publication Info. Amherst, Massachusetts : Lever Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 206 pages) : illustrations, photographs
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-205).
Access Open access
Summary 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.
Funding Sponsored by Lever Press
Note This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Description based on information from the publisher.
Subject People with mental disabilities -- Germany -- Pictorial works.
People with mental disabilities -- Germany.
People with mental disabilities -- Pictorial works.
People with mental disabilities. (OCoLC)fst01057383
Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
Genre/Form Pictorial works. (OCoLC)fst01423874
Added Author Hamilton, Elizabeth C., 1965- translator.
Riemann, Dietmar, photographer.
Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
Added Title Was für eine Insel in was für einem Meer. English
ISBN 9781643150284 open access
1643150286 open access
Standard No. 10.3998/mpub.12467134 doi
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