INSIDE DEAF CULTURE

Author: Carol PADDEN
Secondary Author: Tom Humphries
ISBN: 9780674015067

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 th

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publish Date: 2005-01

Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines / Sign Language, Medical / Diseases, Psychology / History

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Ability Studies (ABLT))