Reimagining Helen Keller
This book could be a good read for someone who is interested in critically examining historical figures and appreciating the complexities of their lives beyond what is widely known. Kleege's creative nonfiction approach and use of letters to Helen Keller allow for a unique exploration of Keller's life and the emotions and relationships that shaped her. This book challenges the perfect image of Keller and presents a more realistic and nuanced understanding of her as an individual who found a practical way to live despite the restrictions of her myth.
ISBN: 9781563682957
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: $48.38
Authors:
Georgina Kleege
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Date of Publication: 2006-09-15
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.86
(rated by 111 readers)
Description
As a young blind girl, Georgina Kleege repeatedly heard the refrain, “Why can’t you be more like Helen Keller?” Kleege’s resentment culminates in her book Blind Letters to Helen Keller , an ingenious examination of the life of this renowned international figure using 21st-century sensibilities. Kleege’s absorption with Keller originated as an angry response to the ideal of a secular saint, which no real blind or deaf person could ever emulate. However, her investigation into the genuine person revealed that a much more complex set of characters and circumstances shaped Keller’s life.Blind Rage employs an adroit form of creative nonfiction to review the critical junctures in Keller’s life. The simple facts about Helen Keller are how Anne Sullivan taught her deaf-blind pupil to communicate and learn; her impressive career as a Radcliffe graduate and author; her countless public appearances in various venues, from cinema to vaudeville, to campaigns for the American Foundation for the Blind. But Kleege delves below the surface to question the perfection of this image. Through the device of her letters, she challenges Keller to reveal her actual emotions, the real nature of her long relationship with Sullivan, with Sullivan’s husband, and her brief engagement to Peter Fagan. Kleege’s imaginative dramatization, distinguished by her depiction of Keller’s command of abstract sensations, gradually shifts in perspective from anger to admiration. Blind Rage criticizes the Helen Keller myth for prolonging an unrealistic model for blind people, yet it appreciates the individual who found a practical way to live despite the restrictions of her myth.
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