Deafening Modernism : : Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature / / Rebecca Sanchez.

Deafening Modernism tells the story of modernism from the perspective of Deaf critical insight. Working to develop a critical Deaf theory independent of identity-based discourse, Rebecca Sanchez excavates the intersections between Deaf and modernist studies. She traces the ways that Deaf culture, hi...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press,, [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Cultural front (Series)
Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Impersonality: Tradition and the Inescapable Body
  • 2. Primitivism: Communicative Norms and the Ethics of the Story
  • 3. Difficulty: Juxtaposition, Indeterminacy, and the Linguistics of Simultaneity
  • 4. The Image: Cinematic Poetics and Deaf Vision
  • Epilogue: The Textual Body
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author