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dc.contributor.authorBrueggemann, Brenda Jo
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-03T10:10:56Z
dc.date.available2024-04-03T10:10:56Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifierONIX_20240403_9780814739006_114
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89396
dc.description.abstractIn 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCultural Front
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFM Disability: social aspects
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
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dc.subject.otherBrenda
dc.subject.otherBrueggeman
dc.subject.otherdeaf
dc.subject.otherexploration
dc.subject.otherexplore
dc.subject.othergoes
dc.subject.otheridentity
dc.subject.otheritself
dc.subject.othermeans
dc.subject.othernature
dc.subject.othernotion
dc.subject.otherpolitics
dc.subject.otherprobing
dc.subject.othersimple
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dc.titleDeaf Subjects
dc.title.alternativeBetween Identities and Places
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.18574/nyu/9780814799666.001.0001
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7d95336a-0494-42b2-ad9c-8456b2e29ddc
oapen.relation.isbn9780814739006
oapen.relation.isbn9780814799666
oapen.imprintNYU Press
oapen.place.publicationNew York


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