Reading Blindly: Literature, Otherness, and the Possibility of an ...

to begin thinking of how both the reader and the text read each other, write onto each other, into each other.

However, we must begin at the beginning, by taking a detour through blindness—and what blindness entails in the first place. After all, if we refuse to acknowledge what we cannot see, refuse to see that we cannot always see, we might remain stumbling around in the dark.