Deafening Modernism: Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature

by Rebecca Sanchez

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479805556
• ISBN13: 9781479805556
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"