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What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea

Franz Fühmann, Dietmar Riemann and Elizabeth C. Hamilton
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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.
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Member Institution Acknowledgments
  • Acknowledgments
  • “Here, then, awe of human dignity”: Franz Fühmann and Dietmar Riemann’s Photo-Essay Collection, Was für eine Insel in was für einem Meer by Elizabeth C. Hamilton
  • “Photographien von Geistig Behinderten” English translation by Elizabeth C. Hamilton
  • “Photographien von Geistig Behinderten” by Franz Fühmann
  • Die Jüngsten / The Youngest
  • Alltag Im Heim / Everyday Life in the Samaritans’ Institution
  • Arbeit als Therapie / Work as Therapy
  • Höhepunkte des Jahres / Highlights of the Year
  • Die Alten / The Elderly
  • Tending the Vine: Personal Reflections on Visiting the Samariteranstalten by Elizabeth C. Hamilton
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
The complete proposal and manuscript of this work were subjected to a fully closed (“double-blind”) review process. For more information, please see our Peer Review Commitments and Guidelines.
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Published: 2021
Publisher: Lever Press
Copyright: 2021
Copyright Holder: Elizabeth C. Hamilton
ISBN(s)
  • 978-1-64315-027-7 (paper)
  • 978-1-64315-028-4 (open access)
Subject
  • PHOTOGRAPHY / Photoessays & Documentaries
  • PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers/Essays
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