.... The chapter's use of the powerful little “I think I can” blue engine story helps place modern “deafness” in the institutional framework of larger academic language learning. Here, ASL becomes the little language that could: the little language that could turn out to be anything but little for those students who...

... oratory, gesture, and Native primitivism, by Atwater, Reid, and Buffon, and an emergent U.S. discourse on deafness and disability, particularly by Gallaudet and Akerly. American Philosophical Society APS Bakhtin Mikhail Calhoun John C calumet also “peace pipe” Clark William empire U S ethnology...

...In an exploration of what it means to be deaf, the book goes beyond any simple notion of identity politics to explore the very nature of identity itself. Looking at a variety of cultural texts, it exposes and enriches our understanding of how deafness embodies itself in the world, in the visual...

...This chapter looks at the annual reports of various schools of the deaf in the nineteenth century, which provide an illuminating perspective of the fledgling Deaf community. The chapter is an introduction to life in the residential schools from the point of view of the students themselves, wherein...

...This introductory chapter establishes “Deafness,” and not mere “deafness”—which speaks only of the body and its failings—as a vibrant, subaltern culture with a language, community, and history of its own. Deaf people, as a community, have frequently been uncomfortable with claiming the label...

... Mitchell David and Sharon Snyder “Narrative prosthesis ” Animals Baynton Douglas Deafness Race Gender Ashley X Davidson Michael Emanuel Ezekiel Parental love ethics of Butler Judith Euthanasia Lyon Janet Sandel Michael Davis Lennard Shloss Carol Woolf Virginia Yaeger Patricia Barnes...

...Distressing Language is full of mistakes—errors of hearing, speaking, writing, and understanding. It is also a book about the role of disability and deafness in contemporary aesthetics and how physical and intellectual difference challenges generic terms for art and poetry...

...How does disability become available for noticing? In Signs of Disability Stephanie Kerschbaum draws on her lived experiences of disability, deafness, race, and gender to argue for a story-driven, rhetorical, and materialist approach to perceiving disability. Building on Karen...