Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body

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267 Index ableist rhetoric, disability aesthetics and, xi, 1–8, 177–79 abortion, bioethics and, 29–32 Absalom, Absalom (Faulkner), xiii, 42, 46–49 acquired immunode‹ciency syndrome (AIDS): African epidemic of, 189–93; blindness due to, xiv–xv, 145–46, 157–65, 245n8; cultural framing of, 26–32, 177–80; global statistics on, 170–75; hemophilia and, xii–xiii, 36–57; identity politics and research implications of, 234n9; Jarman ’s images of, 157–65; recent advances in management of, 56–57, 236n20; visual images of, 145–46, 244n3 activist politics: disability aesthetics and, 2–8; global aspects of disability and, 192–75, 247n17; socioeconomics and, 117–20; theater and, 191–93 ACT UP, 160 ADA. See Americans with Disabilities Act Adams, Bobby Neel, 186 Adams, John, 45–46 aesthetics: cultural theory and, 142–46; de‹nitions of, 3; visibility theory and, 17–25 Afghanistan, disability and warfare in, 186–89 Africa: AIDS epidemic in, 189–93; ‹lm images of disability in, 179–84 Agamben, Giorgio, 215 agency: disability theory and role of, 16; in organ transfer narratives, 204–6 AIDS. See acquired immunode‹ciency syndrome air the trees (Eigner), 125–28 Algren, Nelson, 75–76 Allen, Donald, 123, 242n6 Allen, Robert, 44 Almanac of the Dead, xv, 199, 201, 215–20, 250n166 alterity, disability studies and, 33–34 Amenabar, Alejandro, 11 American Sign Language (ASL): children of deaf parents and, 112–13; Deaf President Now protest concerning , 239n1; early teaching ‹lms for, 82; Flying Words Project and, 83–87, 99; identity politics and, 28–29; poetics and, xiii–xiv, 100–115; textuality and, 94–99 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 8, 116–17, 133; disability de‹nitions in, 32, 173, 175–76; Eastwood lawsuit and, 15, 233n15; economic impact of, 169–75; globalization and, 193–96 Annie Dearest, 21–22 Antin, David, 27 Anti-Privatization Forum, 191 anti-Semitism: cultural theory of blood and, 43; in ‹lm noir, 238n22 Apartment, The, 71–72 Appadurai, Arjun, 173–75 Archive Project, 245n8 art, 92–93 art: disability aesthetics and, x, 1–8; modernism and, 101; textual communication and, 94–99 assisted suicide, cultural theory and disability and, 11–16 ASL. See American Sign Language Astill, Craig, 240n8 Atwood, Margaret, 200, 219–21 audism ideology: deafness and, 81; textuality and, 97–99 Aurora (Work by Michelangelo with Autograph) (Bavcar), 150–53 Avila, Homer, 6–7 Babel, 227–30, 250n2 Barbicon Conversations, 240n14 Barnes, Colin, 232n6 Bauman, Dirksen, 81, 106 Bavcar, Evgen, xiv–xv, 4, 6, 142, 145, 147–57, 166 Baynton, Douglas, 81 Beautiful Mind, A, 13 Beckett, Samuel, xvi–xvii, 92 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 6, 33 Belgrad, Daniel, 118–20 Bell, Alexander Graham, 109–11 Belluso, John, 19 Benjamin, Walter, 97–98, 165, 169, 205 Bergson, Henri, 102, 241n2 Berlant, Lauren, 39, 45 Bernstein, Charles, 120 Berryman, John, 119 Bérubé, Michael, ix, 29–30, 172, 195–96 Best Years of Our Lives, The, 78–79 Bhabha, Homi, 26 biculturality, cochlear implants as tool for, 233n26 Bicycle and Swallows (Bavcar), 148–50 Big Clock, The, 71 Big Combo, The, 236n2 Big Heat, The, 236n2 Big Sleep, The, 236n2 bioethics, disability and, 29–32 bio-power, Foucault’s concept of, 102–3, 215 biotech industry, transplant narratives and, 215–19 birth defects, sociocultural de‹nitions of, 29 Bishop, Elizabeth, 226 Black Mountain poetry movement, 119–20 Black Stork, The, 7 Blade Runner, 250n17 Blazek, Douglas, 243n11 blind artists: Bavcar’s work, 147–57; Derrida’s representation theory and, 153; Jarman’s work, 157–65; ocularcentrism and works of, xiv–xv, 144–46, 166–67 Blindness, 17–18, 247n18 blood: biopolitics and, 216–19; cultural theory and role of, xi–xiii; hemophobia and queer theory and, 35–57; identity politics and, 49–54; medical model of disability and, 27–32; nationalist politics and metaphor of, 44–46; tainted blood products, 178–79 Bloodlines, 50 Blood Saga, 234n7 Bloodstains, 235n13 Blue Dahlia, The, 58–59 Blue (‹lm), xiv–xv, 145–46, 157–65, 245n10 Body and Soul, 191 Bolero, 33 Bradstreet, Anne, 226 brain death, organ transfer and concept of, 199–200, 203–4 Brasher Doubloon, The, 236n2 Bridge, The, 135 Brooks, Gwendolyn, 7, 232n7 Brown, Wendy, 233n28 Brueggemann, Brenda, 83–87, 239n6, 240n7 Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, 51 Butler, Judith, 8, 55–56, 233n19 Cain, James M., 68–77 Calle, Sophie, 17, 23–25, 155, 233n21 268 Index Cambodia, disability and violence in, 185–86 Cancer Journals, The, 119...