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The Politics of Deafness (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Deafness (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Deafness embarks upon a post-modern examination of
the search for identity in deafness and its relationship to the
prevalent hearing culture that has marginalized Deaf people. Author
Owen Wrigley plainly states his intention to disrupt "normal"
thought about the popularly considered condition of deafness as a
physical deficiency. From his decade of experience working and
living in the Deaf community in Thailand, he uses wide-ranging
examples to go beyond disputing conventional theorists for their
interpretation of deafness as the lack of a sensory function. By
calling attention to the different lingual potential created by the
instant visual expression of cyberspace he explodes orthodox
conceptualization of the nature of language as serially ordered and
dependent upon sound. In bold style, this provocative work poses
the relationship of the bodies physical and mental of Deaf people
as subject to a form of "colonialism" by the dominant Hearing
culture. It proceeds to expose and attack presumptions and
practices that derive from and descend upon deaf bodies. Related
analysis also addresses tensions little noted in the current
literature on deafness and on the popular move to reconstitute
Deafness as a global culture. Through displacement of logistical
anchors, ironic stances, and disconcerting perspectives, The
Politics of Deafness practices a form of de-naturalization to
demand space within and between the normalizing frames of daily
lives. By doing so, it offers an insightful and intriguing
perspective on the meanings of Deafness, the politics of Deaf
identity, and what it costs to be "unusual".
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