Inside Deaf Culture
Download or Read eBook Inside Deaf Culture PDF written by Carol PADDEN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Carol PADDEN |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780674041752 |
ISBN-13 | : 0674041755 |
Rating | : 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Inside Deaf Culture by : Carol PADDEN
Book excerpt: "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." Cf. Publisher's description.