Deafening Modernism : embodied language and visual poetics in American literature /
'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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Cultural front
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | '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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479810628 1479810622 1479828866 9781479828869 1479805556 9781479805556 |