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Rebecca Sanchez - Deafening Modernism - 9781479828869 - V9781479828869
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Deafening Modernism

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Description for Deafening Modernism Hardcover. Series: Cultural Front. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 445.

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, history, linguistics, and literature provide a vital and largely untapped resource for understanding the history of American language politics and the impact that history has had on modernist aesthetic production.
Discussing Deaf and disability studies in these unexpected contexts highlights the contributions the field can make to broader discussions of the intersections between images, bodies, and text. ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Front
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479828869
SKU
V9781479828869
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About Rebecca Sanchez
Rebecca Sanchez is Professor of English and director of the disability studies program at Fordham University. She is the author of Deafening Modernism: Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature and (with Mara Mills) co-editor of the republication of Pauline Leader’s And No Birds Sing.

Reviews for Deafening Modernism
An extraordinary book.Superbly written, critically nuanced, and refreshingly new,Deafening Modernismwill set the standard for future disability and Deaf studies scholarship. There is truly nothing else like it.
Brenda Brueggemann,author of Deaf Subjects: Between Identities and Places Exciting and original, Rebecca Sanchez remakes our understanding twentieth-century American literature through the frame of American Sign Language. Offering fresh and brilliant insights,Deafening ... Read more

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