A Journey Into the Deaf-world
Author: Harlan L. Lane
Publisher: Dawnsign Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Experience life as it is in the U.S. for those who cannot hear.
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Train Go Sorry
Author: Leah Hager Cohen
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1995-04-25
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0679761659
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A stunning work of journalism and memoir that explores the intimate truths of the silent but articulate world of the deaf. In American Sign Language, "train go sorry" means "missing the boat." Leah Hager Cohen uses the phrase as shorthand for the myriad missed connections between the deaf and the hearing. As she ushers readers into New York's Lexington School for the Deaf, Cohen (whose grandfather was deaf and whose father was the school's superintendent) she also forges new connections.
Seeing Voices
Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published: 2011-03-04
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0307365751
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect — a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well. Seeing Voices is, as Studs Terkel has written, "an exquisite, as well as revelatory, work."
Introduction to American Deaf Culture
Author: Thomas K. Holcomb
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-01-17
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 0199777543
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Introduction to American Deaf Culture provides a fresh perspective on what it means to be Deaf in contemporary hearing society. The book offers an overview of Deaf art, literature, history, and humor, and touches on political, social and cultural themes.
Deaf Culture, Our Way
Author: Roy K. Holcomb
Publisher: Dawnsign Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781581211498
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →4th rev. ed. of the original: Hazards of deafness.
The Mask of Benevolence
Author: Harlan L. Lane
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780679736141
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A look at the gulf that separates the deaf minority from the hearing world, this book sheds light on the mistreatment of the deaf community by a hearing establishment that resists understanding and awareness. Critically acclaimed as a breakthrough when it was first published in 1992, this new edition includes information on the science and ethics of childhood cochlear implants. An indictment of the ways in which experts in the scientific, medical, and educational establishment purport to serve the deaf, The Mask of Benevolence describes how they, in fact, do them great harm.
Understanding Deaf Culture
Author: Paddy Ladd
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2003-02-18
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 1847696899
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book presents a ‘Traveller’s Guide’ to Deaf Culture, starting from the premise that Deaf cultures have an important contribution to make to other academic disciplines, and human lives in general. Within and outside Deaf communities, there is a need for an account of the new concept of Deaf culture, which enables readers to assess its place alongside work on other minority cultures and multilingual discourses. The book aims to assess the concepts of culture, on their own terms and in their many guises and to apply these to Deaf communities. The author illustrates the pitfalls which have been created for those communities by the medical concept of ‘deafness’ and contrasts this with his new concept of “Deafhood”, a process by which every Deaf child, family and adult implicitly explains their existence in the world to themselves and each other.
When the Mind Hears
Author: Harlan Lane
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-08-04
Total Pages: 561
ISBN-13: 0307874710
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice.
Deaf Like Me
Author: Thomas S. Spradley
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780930323110
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The parents of a child born without hearing describe their efforts to reach across the barrier of silence to teach their daughter to speak and enjoy a normal life.
Inside Deaf Culture
Author: Carol PADDEN
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0674041755
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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.
