Deaf Subjects : Between Identities and Places / Brenda Jo Brueggemann.
Brueggemann, Brenda Jo, author.
2009
HV2390 .B74 2016
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Title Deaf Subjects : Between Identities and Places / Brenda Jo Brueggemann.
Author Brueggemann, Brenda Jo, author.
ISBN 9780814739006
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814799666.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2009
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 30 black and white illustrations
Item Number 10.18574/nyu/9780814799666.001.0001 doi
Call Number HV2390 .B74 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.9082
Summary 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 state of the field of Deaf Studies at the beginning of our new century. She explores the power and potential of American Sign Language-wedged, as she sees it, between letter-bound language and visual ways of learning-and argues for a rhetorical approach and digital future for ASL literature.The narration of deaf lives through writing becomes a pivot around which to imagine how digital media and documentary can be used to convey deaf life stories. Finally, she expands our notion of diversity within the deaf identity itself, takes on the complex relationship between deaf and hearing people, and offers compelling illustrations of the intertwined, and sometimes knotted, nature of individual and collective identities within Deaf culture.
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Series Cultural Front ; ; 12
In New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780814799666
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Between:
2. American Sign Language and the Academy
3. Approaching American Sign Language Literature
4. Narrating Deaf Lives
5. Deaf Eyes
6. Posting Mabel
7. Economics, Euthanasia, Eugenics
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author

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