| Description |
xii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness: Discovering All the Available Means of Persuasion -- Pt. 1. Deafness as Disability. Ch. 2. Deafness, Literacy, Rhetoric: Legacies of Language and Communication. Ch. 3. "It's So Hard to Believe That You Pass": A Hearing-Impaired Student Writing on the Borders of Language -- Interlude 1: On (Almost) Passing -- Pt. 2. Deafness as Pathology. Ch. 4. Diagnosing Deafness: The Audiologist's Authority -- Interlude 2: Interpellations: "Call to A. G. Bell" and "Assessment of the Speech-Reception Threshold" -- Pt. 3. Deafness as Culture. Ch. 5. The Coming Out of Deaf Culture: Repeating, Reversing, Revising Rhetorics. Ch. 6. Words Another Way: Of Presence, Vision, Silence, and Politics in Sign Language Poetry -- Interlude 3: Are You Deaf or Hearing? |
| Summary |
The tradition of rhetoric established 2,500 years ago emphasizes the imperative of speech as a defining characteristic of reason. But in her new book Lend Me Your Ear, Brenda Jo Brueggemann exposes this tradition's effect of disallowing deaf people human identity because of their natural silence. Brueggemann's assault upon this long-standing rhetorical conceit is both erudite and personal; she writes both as a scholar and as a hard-of-hearing woman. In this broadly based study, she presents a profound analysis and understanding of rhetorical tradition's descendent disciplines that continue to limit deaf people, such as audiology and speech/language pathology. Next to this even-handed scholarship, she juxtaposes a volatile, emotional counterpoint achieved through interviews with Deaf individuals who have faced rhetorically constructed restrictions and with interludes of her own poetry and memoirs |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-283) and index |
| Subject |
Deafness -- Social aspects.
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Deaf -- Social conditions.
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Deaf -- Means of communication.
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Deaf -- Education.
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Sociology of disability.
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| LC no. |
99020807 |
| ISBN |
1563680793 hardcover alkaline paper |
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