The majority of research and writing about visual impairment is influenced by medical models of understanding, and is usually undertaken by sighted experts about those who are visually impaired. Songs at Twilight takes a different stance and uses a collaborative narrative methodology to enable the author, who is visually impaired, and thirty contributors, who are also visually impaired, to explore their experiences of living with a visual impairment and the effect this has had on their claims to identity.The dynamic research process is shown as a social construction of lived experience where questions of identity are addressed through conversation and narrative. Sighted assumptions about blindness are challenged as the author and contributors discuss aspects of diagnosis and treatment, education, employment, societal attitudes towards blindness, relationships, treatment possibilities, emotional support (including counselling) and emancipatory research practices.
- ISBN10 6613143065
- ISBN13 9786613143068
- Publish Date 1 June 2011 (first published 12 May 2011)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 28 September 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Format eBook
- Pages 260
- Language English