Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/4968to listen full audiobooks. Title: There Plant Eyes Author: M. Leona Godin Narrator: M. Leona Godin Format: mp3 Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins Release date: 06-01-21 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 25 ratings Genres: People with Disabilities Publisher's Summary: There Plant Eyes probes the ways in which blindness has shaped our ocularcentric culture, challenging deeply ingrained ideas about what it means to be “blind”. For millennia, blindness has been used to signify such things as thoughtlessness (“blind faith”), irrationality (“blind rage”), and unconsciousness (“blind evolution”). But at the same time, blind people have been othered as the recipients of special powers as compensation for lost sight (from the poetic gifts of John Milton to the heightened senses of the comic book hero Daredevil).

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