Delores Phillips’s novel The Darkest Child (2004), which features one of the few representations of deafness in African American literature, has been largely overlooked in literary criticism. Phillips’s depiction of Martha Jean challenges a long-standing tradition of deaf characters and deaf-related imagery as negative. Yet, Martha Jean is not a marginal character, nor merely a symbol or metaphor. Rather, as I show, Martha Jean constitutes a character of complex embodiment who complicates preconceived notions of Black and deaf people as “burdens” on society. Trapped under a system of capitalism which values labor, ability, and profit, Martha Jean’s mother, Rozelle, considers her a burden, forcing her into a sort of indentured servitude in the domestic sphere—cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the babies that Rozelle continues to have. However, the article maintains that Martha Jean uses her position in the domestic sphere in order to reorder and redefine those terms. Ultimately, the suggestion is that by centering deafness and a deaf experience, Phillips exposes complex aspects of the novel which might otherwise be obscured. Through complicating issues surrounding literacy and education, and larger systems of racism, sexism, capitalism, and ableism, Phillips imagines a multiplicity of Black experiences in the Jim Crow South.
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Silence is the official periodical of the Bulgarian Union of the Deaf. Its first issue was published in 1957. At this relatively early stage of state socialism, the Union was virtually the single space of representation of deafness in Bulgaria. Although established in the 1930s, predominantly thanks to the efforts of several deaf activists,1 during the socialist era the Union functioned largely as a state and Party extension. Thus, the representation of deafness may be considered as pertaining to and informed by the official ideology; as an imposed framing which creates peculiar moral economy and “cultural opportunity structure” (Noonan 85). Certainly, from this it does not follow that the mundane orchestration of everyday life of deaf Bulgarians is entirely governed by this representation, but it still deserves attention since it is a key factor, defining the scope of meanings and imageries which could be attached to deafness, publicly as well as in the (quasi) activist aspirations and identity-building. My reflections, which I briefly share in this piece, rest on a content analysis of the issues of Silence from 1957 until the early 1970s, when a shift in the ideology can be observed towards certain diversification of the cultural repertoire. Thus I focus on the early socialist period, which creates one markedly labourobsessed symbolic universe. I read the issues against the background of additional textual materials, focusing on disability assessment and especially on the organized state effort and official disability policy to (re)insert as many disabled people as possible in the work-based system, unburdening in this way the need-based system (Stone 15). In this context, labour is conceptualized and acclaimed as a curative and prophylactic activity, beneficial for the physical and emotional well-being of disabled people. However, it is mainly defined as a fundamental moral duty, which is community-oriented since it contributes
{"title":"“Labour Is Our Song!”: Deaf in the Bulgarian Socialist Work Utopia","authors":"I. Dimitrova","doi":"10.3828/JLCDS.2021.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/JLCDS.2021.17","url":null,"abstract":"Silence is the official periodical of the Bulgarian Union of the Deaf. Its first issue was published in 1957. At this relatively early stage of state socialism, the Union was virtually the single space of representation of deafness in Bulgaria. Although established in the 1930s, predominantly thanks to the efforts of several deaf activists,1 during the socialist era the Union functioned largely as a state and Party extension. Thus, the representation of deafness may be considered as pertaining to and informed by the official ideology; as an imposed framing which creates peculiar moral economy and “cultural opportunity structure” (Noonan 85). Certainly, from this it does not follow that the mundane orchestration of everyday life of deaf Bulgarians is entirely governed by this representation, but it still deserves attention since it is a key factor, defining the scope of meanings and imageries which could be attached to deafness, publicly as well as in the (quasi) activist aspirations and identity-building. My reflections, which I briefly share in this piece, rest on a content analysis of the issues of Silence from 1957 until the early 1970s, when a shift in the ideology can be observed towards certain diversification of the cultural repertoire. Thus I focus on the early socialist period, which creates one markedly labourobsessed symbolic universe. I read the issues against the background of additional textual materials, focusing on disability assessment and especially on the organized state effort and official disability policy to (re)insert as many disabled people as possible in the work-based system, unburdening in this way the need-based system (Stone 15). In this context, labour is conceptualized and acclaimed as a curative and prophylactic activity, beneficial for the physical and emotional well-being of disabled people. However, it is mainly defined as a fundamental moral duty, which is community-oriented since it contributes","PeriodicalId":37229,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"239 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42811604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mabel Bell, the deaf wife of Alexander Graham Bell, was known for being a highly skilled “speechreader,” a narrative that played into the spread of oralist education philosophies at the turn of the twentieth century through characterizing deaf people as readerly figures who tapped into the perceptual skill and American cultural values associated with literacy and literariness. The article considers Mabel Bell’s “subtle art” of deep textual deduction and its influence on other instructors of lipreading, particularly Edward B. Nitchie of the Nitchie School of Lip-Reading, and examines how reading and literature became represented as essential tools in a deaf person’s communicative arsenal. Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century accounts of lipreading conceptualize nonsigning deaf people as perceptive and profoundly literate figures who use their “intimate” knowledge of written linguistic meaning to achieve their own variety of silent, efficient, and productive reading. By aligning deaf people’s visual skill with the act of reading, rather than with the physical conspicuousness of sign language, Mabel Bell and her contemporaries framed reading language “by eye” as the culturally trained, literate, individual, acceptably American, and invisible solution for deafness.
梅布尔·贝尔(Mabel Bell)是亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔(Alexander Graham Bell)的聋哑人妻子，她以技艺高超的“演讲者”而闻名，这种叙事方式在20世纪初通过将聋哑人描绘成读者人物，利用与识字和文学相关的感知技能和美国文化价值观，促进了口语教育哲学的传播。本文考虑了梅布尔·贝尔的深层文本演绎的“微妙艺术”及其对其他唇读教师的影响，特别是尼奇唇读学派的爱德华·b·尼奇，并研究了阅读和文学是如何成为聋哑人交流的基本工具的。19世纪末和20世纪初对唇读的描述将非手语聋哑人概念化为具有敏锐洞察力和深刻文化素养的人物，他们利用他们对书面语言意义的“亲密”知识来实现他们自己的各种沉默，高效和富有成效的阅读。梅布尔·贝尔和她同时代的人将聋哑人的视觉技能与阅读行为结合起来，而不是与肢体语言的显著性结合起来，将“用眼睛”阅读语言定义为受过文化训练的、有文化的、个人的、可接受的美国人的、无形的耳聋解决方案。
{"title":"Deaf People’s “Subtile Art”","authors":"R. Kolb","doi":"10.3828/JLCDS.2021.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/JLCDS.2021.11","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Mabel Bell, the deaf wife of Alexander Graham Bell, was known for being a highly skilled “speechreader,” a narrative that played into the spread of oralist education philosophies at the turn of the twentieth century through characterizing deaf people as readerly figures who tapped into the perceptual skill and American cultural values associated with literacy and literariness. The article considers Mabel Bell’s “subtle art” of deep textual deduction and its influence on other instructors of lipreading, particularly Edward B. Nitchie of the Nitchie School of Lip-Reading, and examines how reading and literature became represented as essential tools in a deaf person’s communicative arsenal. Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century accounts of lipreading conceptualize nonsigning deaf people as perceptive and profoundly literate figures who use their “intimate” knowledge of written linguistic meaning to achieve their own variety of silent, efficient, and productive reading. By aligning deaf people’s visual skill with the act of reading, rather than with the physical conspicuousness of sign language, Mabel Bell and her contemporaries framed reading language “by eye” as the culturally trained, literate, individual, acceptably American, and invisible solution for deafness.","PeriodicalId":37229,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"133-149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84626872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The article examines text as a cultural repository of the memories and consciousness of a milieu. What it argues is that individual narratives of pain and suffering have the potential for foregrounding the world view of a community and for resistance to inherent social and cultural stereotypes and oppressive social structures. Madan Vasishta’s Deaf in Delhi: A Memoir (2006) is a remarkable work of literary disability scholarship, informed by the author’s saga of pain, struggle, and triumphant march in life. In this memoir, the author is described being a deaf boy in his homeland of India, where “deaf” meant someone who is not human. The author’s narrative is lined up with many facets of deafness as a cultural and social signifier. Though the article’s point of focus is upon the social and cultural representation of disability in the context of a community through the text as an archive, the study tries to examine how the understanding of the society/community at large inflects and complicates disability representations of an individual text.
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Liberalism glorifies free speech as the primary means to achieve progress. Free speech is presumed to involve a clear association across awareness, individual voice, collective speaking, and increased representation. Michel Foucault located a genealogy of related practices of speaking truth in the Stoic tradition of parrhesia. However, as he established, liberalism limits speech, as centrism and civility flatten all forms of speech as equivalent whereby all sides come to matter. As demonstrated today, the alt-right and radical left are seen as equally illiberal and asking for too much. Speech, specifically under liberalism, loses its import. The article asks what happens when we free the concept of speech from free speech and the liberal tradition. To explore this, the article turns to disability, particularly deafness, to grapple with other formulations of speech. It examines Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s classic film A City of Sadness (1989) and focuses on its representations of deafness and its disability aesthetics. Hou’s aesthetics and use of media objects establish a political critique that does not rely on truth, repair, or recognition. This film develops a Marxist theory of speech and reconsiders speech through other modes of governance like autocracy. Ultimately, the article explores how different governance structures rework not only speech but also notions of political change.
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Abstrat:The article analyses depictions of disability embodiment in a range of contemporary North American speculative fiction that depicts post-crisis worlds of social and environmental breakdown. It argues that in each novel bodies are threatened and placed under pressure, particularly in terms of capacity and function. While some resolve this through recourse to humanist narratives of restitution, others imagine futures in which both bodies and societies become reformatted. Bodies remain material, but they also become metamorphized and messy; they hold charged manifestations of personhood, but also leak these conceptions of “person;” they are recognizably human, but also patterned as posthuman. The results are depictions of disability-led embodiment that, precisely because they are formed in imagined possibilities of the future, offer productive possibilities for re-visioning the present.
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The article reads Walter Benjamin against the grain to find Enlightenment and post Enlightenment constructions of disability within his texts. Benjamin’s keen criticism of bourgeois humanism and its attendants, capital, progress narratives, individualism, and hierarchies can be seen most clearly through an examination of the strange creatures who inhabit the borders of his thought. The argument is that positioning these as figures of disability sheds further light on Benjamin’s ethical and political concerns after World War I. Primarily focusing on the mute figures that appear in The Mummerehlen and The Storyteller: Reflections on the Work of Nikolai Leskóv, the article puts these two texts in dialogue with one another to argue that Benjamin saw a radical disruptiveness in non-normative and not-quite-human corporeality.
本文在本雅明的文本中寻找启蒙和后启蒙对残疾的建构。本雅明对资产阶级人文主义及其随从、资本、进步叙事、个人主义和等级制度的尖锐批评，可以通过对居住在他思想边界上的奇怪生物的研究得到最清晰的体现。这篇文章的论点是，将这些残疾人物定位为第一次世界大战后本雅明的伦理和政治关注，进一步揭示了本雅明在《Mummerehlen》和《The Storyteller: Reflections on The Work of Nikolai Leskóv》中出现的哑巴人物，这篇文章将这两篇文章放在一起进行对话，以证明本雅明在非规范和非完全人类的身体中看到了一种激进的破坏性。
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.3828/jlcds.2021.15.issue-1
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Abstract:Superheroes are often disabled, either literally or metaphorically. Their exceptional powers and abilities may be balanced by weakness in order to engender audience sympathy or identification, or to provide a source of narrative obstacles. Although superhero stories are not necessarily about disability, they have become one of the most accessible and popular formats in which disability is a consistently salient trope and integral part of the narrative machinery. The article argues that the use of disability in current superhero narratives, exemplified by the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), is best understood through the theoretical lens of narrative prosthesis and ablenationalism. In the MCU, a core function of disability is to provide heroes with a yearning for normality and a desire to be productive members of a community. The interlinked narratives of the MCU effectively depict many of its protagonists as supercrips, framing disability as intrinsically linked to a heroic struggle to fit in with non-disabled society.
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The article traces a Deaf-oriented rhetoric within The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, examining the consequences of reading and understanding deafness metaphorically, both on and beyond the fictive page. The Heart performs an uncomfortably close sketch of these consequences, culminating in protagonist John Singer’s suicide. The article situates deafness within a context of eugenics and oralism, and details Singer’s estrangement from community and eventually himself as a consequence of that community’s unwillingness to connect meaningfully with its only deaf citizen. The article also details how The Heart deserves to be critically reexamined by literary disability studies because it moves into the critical realms of discomfort and unease, raising questions about who may and may not engage with disability studies.
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