Deaf subjects : between identities and places / Brenda Jo Brueuggemann.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index.

Between : a commonplace book for the modern deaf subject -- American Sign Language and the academy : the little language that could -- Approaching American Sign Language literature : rhetorically and digitally -- Narrating deaf lives : placing deaf autobiography, biography, and documentary -- Deaf eyes : the Allen Sisters' pictorial photography, 1885-1920 -- Posting Mabel -- Economics, euthanasia, eugenics : rhetorical commonplaces of disability in the Nazi T-4 program.

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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.

English.

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