Title My sense of silence : memoirs of a childhood with deafness / Lennard J. Davis

Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2000] ©2000

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Description 1 online resource Series Creative nonfiction Creative nonfiction (Urbana, Ill.) Contents The grain of sounds -- Language and the word of my father -- The two mothers -- Brother's keeper -- Honeymoon with mom -- Schooling -- Adolescence -- College and other awakenings Summary "Lennard J. Davis grew up as the hearing child of deaf parents. In this candid, affecting, and often funny memoir, he recalls the joys and confusions of this special world, especially his complex and sometimes difficult relationships with his working-class Jewish immigrant parents." "Growing up in a crowded one-bedroom South Bronx tenement, Lennard felt himself "a hearing outsider" caught between two worlds. Davis recounts childhood loneliness and fear, adolescent frustration compounded by embarrassment at his parents' deafness, and intellectual aspirations that ran counter to their compliant stoicism. He vividly describes his father's devotion to race walking and to televised baseball games, a trip to England with his mother on the Queen Elizabeth, and his successful efforts to relocate his family to a better apartment. He also recounts his problematic relationship with his elder brother, whom he both idolized and feared, and his college years at Columbia University, where (to his parents' chagrin) he participated in the historic campus demonstrations of May 1968." "In a moving epilogue, Davis tells of his adult involvement with CODA (Children of Deaf Adults) and of coming to terms with a surprising realization. "Though I was hearing," he says, "deafness was in me.""--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Description based on print version record Subject Davis, Lennard J., 1949- SUBJECT Davis, Lennard J., 1949- fast Subject Children of deaf parents -- United States -- Biography Deaf parents -- United States -- Biography Deaf -- Family relationships -- United States -- Case studies SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Children of deaf parents Deaf -- Family relationships Deaf parents Biografie Gehörlosigkeit Psychosoziale Situation United States Genre/Form Creative nonfiction, American Biographies Case studies Form Electronic book LC no. 2019718385 ISBN 9780252090943 0252090942

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