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Deaf, She Wrote: Mapping Deaf Women's Autobiography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Brenda Jo Brueggemann
Brenda Jo Brueggemann*
Affiliation:
Ohio State University, Columbus
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I believe, as did one of the greatest Rhe-torical scholars of the twentieth century (or probably any century), Kenneth Burke, that “[t]he human animal, as we know it, emerges into personality by first mastering whatever tribal speech happens to be its particular symbolic environment” (1346). Applying Burke's idea, I am interested in mapping the emergent personality of deaf women writers as they master the tribal speech (and sign too) of their particular region, nation, or era as well as the tribal speech of gender overlaid with the tribal speech of deafness, disability, “normalcy,” and difference.

Type
Conference on Disability Studies and the University
Information
PMLA , Volume 120 , Issue 2 , March 2005 , pp. 577 - 583
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2005

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