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Inside Deaf Culture (Paperback, New Ed)
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Inside Deaf Culture (Paperback, New Ed)
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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. Padden and 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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