Scattered Shadows (ePub)
A Memoir of Blindness and Vision
(Sprache: Englisch)
This never before published memoir by the author of Black Like Me is an extraordinary chronicle of the triumph of the human spirit.
Commonweal review: The subtitle of Scattered Shadows: A Memoir of Blindness and Vision is not metaphoric. Griffin seems...
Commonweal review: The subtitle of Scattered Shadows: A Memoir of Blindness and Vision is not metaphoric. Griffin seems...
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This never before published memoir by the author of Black Like Me is an extraordinary chronicle of the triumph of the human spirit.
Commonweal review: The subtitle of Scattered Shadows: A Memoir of Blindness and Vision is not metaphoric. Griffin seems to have taken to sightlessness with a kind of steely gusto, coming to the belief that "a life without sight was as interesting as a life with sight." He was determined to excel in arenas where sight would seem to be essential. He became a champion cattle breeder, for instance. He wrote novels, and fought a pornography charge on one all the way to the Supreme Court (he won). Although fascinated by monastic life, Griffin struggled with faith, and in 1951 converted to Catholicism. He learned Braille, walked fearlessly with a cane, achieving independence by sheer determination, aided by his parents and later his wife Elizabeth. On January 9, 1957, ten-years blind and settled into his life as husband and father, he walked into his parents' house that afternoon and suddenly saw a flash of red, then a door "dancing at crazy angles." Soon after, the dazzling world of color returned: the faces of his parents, his never-before-glimpsed wife, and the children he had known only by touch. Like a figure out of the New Testament, he was miraculously restored.
Commonweal review: The subtitle of Scattered Shadows: A Memoir of Blindness and Vision is not metaphoric. Griffin seems to have taken to sightlessness with a kind of steely gusto, coming to the belief that "a life without sight was as interesting as a life with sight." He was determined to excel in arenas where sight would seem to be essential. He became a champion cattle breeder, for instance. He wrote novels, and fought a pornography charge on one all the way to the Supreme Court (he won). Although fascinated by monastic life, Griffin struggled with faith, and in 1951 converted to Catholicism. He learned Braille, walked fearlessly with a cane, achieving independence by sheer determination, aided by his parents and later his wife Elizabeth. On January 9, 1957, ten-years blind and settled into his life as husband and father, he walked into his parents' house that afternoon and suddenly saw a flash of red, then a door "dancing at crazy angles." Soon after, the dazzling world of color returned: the faces of his parents, his never-before-glimpsed wife, and the children he had known only by touch. Like a figure out of the New Testament, he was miraculously restored.
Autoren-Porträt von John Howard Griffin
Known primarily as the author of the modern classic, Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin (1920-1980) was a true Renaissance man. Having fought in the French Resistance and been a solo observer on an island in the South Pacific during World War II, he became a critically-acclaimed novelist and essayist, a remarkable photographer and musicologist, and a dynamic lecturer and teacher. On October 28, 1959, after a decade of blindness and a remarkable and inexplicable recovery, John Howard Griffin dyed himself black and began an odyssey of discovery through the segregated American South. The result was Black Like Me, arguably the single most important documentation of 20th century American racism ever written.Because of Black Like Me, Griffin was personally vilified, hanged in effigy in his hometown, and threatened with death for the rest of his life. Griffin's courageous act and the book it generated earned him international respect as a human rights activist. Griffin worked with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Dick Gregory, Saul Alinsky, and NAACP Director Roy Wilkins during the Civil Rights era. He taught seminars at the University of Peace with Nobel Peace Laureate Father Dominique Pire, and delivered hundreds of lectures worldwide. Earlier, during a decade of blindness (1947-1957), he wrote novels. His 1952 bestseller, The Devil Rides Outside was a test case in a controversial censorship trial that was settled in his favor by the US Supreme Court. Later in his life, Griffin was also recognized for his magnificent black & white photographic portraits, which were featured in his photographic books A Hidden Wholeness: The Visual World of Thomas Merton (Griffin was also Thomas Merton's biographer) and Jacques Maritain: Homage in Words and Pictures.
On February 27, 2011, the Mansfield Public Library was designated a National Literary Landmark due to its association with John Howard Griffin.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: John Howard Griffin
- 2004, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1609401174
- ISBN-13: 9781609401177
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2004
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