A new article of mine titled “Narrating Blindness and Seeing Ocularcentrism in Þorsteins saga hvíta” appears in the latest issue of the journal Gripla. This article explores Þorsteins saga hvíta using a disability studies approach and consider how the saga makes use of Þorsteinn’s vision loss and subsequent blindness to confront the hegemony of vision in connection with both knowledge and narrative. Click here to read the article, which is published open access by the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies.
Christopher W. E. Crocker 