Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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.

People with mental disabilities. --- Personnes ayant une deficience intellectuelle --- People with mental disabilities --- Germany. --- Intellectually disabled persons --- Mental disabilities, People with --- Mentally deficient persons --- Mentally disabled persons --- Mentally disordered persons --- Mentally handicapped --- Mentally retarded persons --- People with intellectual disabilities --- Retarded persons --- People with disabilities --- Intellectual disability --- Mentally ill --- Alemania --- Ashkenaz --- BRD --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Bundesrepublik Deutschland --- Deguo --- Deutsches Reich --- Deutschland --- Doitsu --- Doitsu Renpō Kyōwakoku --- Federal Republic of Germany --- Federalʹna Respublika Nimechchyny --- FRN --- Gėrman --- German Uls --- Germania --- Germanii︠a︡ --- Germanyah --- Gjermani --- Grossdeutsches Reich --- Jirmānīya --- KhBNGU --- Kholboony Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Nimechchyna --- Repoblika Federalin'i Alemana --- República de Alemania --- República Federal de Alemania --- Republika Federal Alemmana --- Vācijā --- Veĭmarskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Weimar Republic --- Weimarer Republik --- Germany (East) --- Germany (West) --- Europe --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Doitsu Renpō Kyōwakoku --- Federalʹna Respublika Nimechchyny --- Gėrman --- Germanii︠a︡ --- Jirmānīya --- Kholboony Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- República de Alemania --- República Federal de Alemania --- Vācijā --- Veĭmarskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Photography and photographs;Photographs: collections;Individual photographers --- 1900-1999 --- 1949 --- -Cộng hòa dân chủ Đức --- D.D.R. --- DDR --- Democratic German Republic --- Deutsche Demokratische Republik --- East German Democratic Republic --- East Germany --- Eastern Germany --- G.D.R. --- GDR --- German Democratic Republic --- Germanskai︠a︡ Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Germany --- N.D.K. --- N.D.R. --- N.R.D. --- NDK --- NDR --- Nĕmecká demokratická republika --- Német Demokratikus Köztársaság --- Niemiecka Republika Demokratyczna --- Nimet︠s︡ʹka Demokratychna Respublika --- NRD --- Ostdeutschland --- Östtyskland --- R.D.A. --- RDA --- Repubblica democratica tedesca --- Republica Democrată Germană --- República Democrática Alemana --- Tyska demokratiska republiken --- Tyske demokratiske republik