Inside Deaf Culture / Carol A. Padden, Tom L. Humphries.
Padden, Carol A., author.; Humphries, Tom L., author.
2006
HV2545 ǂb P35 2005eb
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Title Inside Deaf Culture / Carol A. Padden, Tom L. Humphries.
Author Padden, Carol A., author.
ISBN 9780674041752
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674041752
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2006]
Copyright ©2005
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (224 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674041752 doi
Call Number HV2545 ǂb P35 2005eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.9089
Summary In this absorbing story of the changing life of a community, the authors of Deaf in America reveal historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves today. Inside Deaf Culture relates Deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture. Carol Padden and Tom Humphries show how the nineteenth-century schools for the deaf, with their denigration of sign language and their insistence on oralist teaching, shaped the lives of Deaf people for generations to come. They describe how Deaf culture and art thrived in mid-twentieth century Deaf clubs and Deaf theatre, and profile controversial contemporary technologies. Most triumphant is the story of the survival of the rich and complex language American Sign Language, long misunderstood but finally recently recognized by a hearing world that could not conceive of language in a form other than speech. In a moving conclusion, the authors describe their own very different pathways into the Deaf community, and reveal the confidence and anxiety of the people of this tenuous community as it faces the future. Inside Deaf Culture celebrates the experience of a minority culture-its common past, present debates, and promise for the future. From these pages emerge clear and bold voices, speaking out from inside this once silenced community.
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Added Author Humphries, Tom L., author.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: The Lens of Culture
1. Silenced Bodies
2. An Entirely Separate School
3. The Problem of Voice
4. A New Class Consciousness
5. Technology of Voice
6. Anxiety of Culture
7. The Promise of Culture
8. Cultures into the Future
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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