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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Main Author: Sanchez, Rebecca, 1984-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2015.
Series:Cultural front
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781479810628
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9781479805556