ISBN:
9780814739006
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0814739008
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (ix, 203 p. :)
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ill.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Brueggemann, Brenda Jo Deaf Subjects : Between Identities and Places
DDC:
305.9082
Keywords:
Deaf
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Deafness
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Deafness
;
Deaf
;
Deafness Essays history
;
Culture Essays
;
Deafness Essays
;
History, 20th Century Essays
;
History, 19th Century Essays
;
Sign Language Essays
;
Hearing Impaired Persons Essays
;
Culture Essays
;
Deafness Essays
;
Deafness History
;
Essays
;
History, 19th century Essays
;
History, 20th century Essays
;
Sign language Essays
;
Deaf
;
Deafness
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; People with Disabilities
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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Doofheid
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Doven
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Gebarentaal
;
Electronic books
;
Essay
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
In this probing exploration of what it means to be deaf, Brenda Brueggemann goes beyond any simple notion of identity politics to explore the very nature of identity itself. Looking at a variety of cultural texts, she brings her fascination with borders and between-places to expose and enrich our understanding of how deafness embodies itself in the world, in the visual, and in language. Taking on the creation of the modern deaf subject, Brueggemann ranges from the intersections of gender and deafness in the work of photographers Mary and Frances Allen at the turn of the last century, to the st
Description / Table of Contents:
Between : a commonplace book for the modern deaf subjectAmerican Sign Language and the academy : the little language that could -- Approaching American Sign Language literature : rhetorically and digitally -- Narrating deaf lives : placing deaf autobiography, biography, and documentary -- Deaf eyes : the Allen Sisters' pictorial photography, 1885-1920 -- Posting Mabel -- Economics, euthanasia, eugenics : rhetorical commonplaces of disability in the Nazi T-4 program.
Note:
OldControl:muse9780814739006. - "Multi-User. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-189) and index. - Made available online by Project Muse. - Description based on print version record
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-189) and index
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Made available online by Project Muse
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OldControl:muse9780814739006
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