Deaf identities in the making : local lives, transnational connections / Jan-Kåre Breivik.
"In this volume, Jan-Kare Breivik profiles ten Norwegian Deaf people and their life stories within a translocal/transnational framework. Breivik notes that, unlike hearing people, who form their identities from familial roots and local senses of place, deaf individuals often find themselves dis...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Gallaudet University Press,
2005.
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| Online Access: | EBSCO eBooks Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | "In this volume, Jan-Kare Breivik profiles ten Norwegian Deaf people and their life stories within a translocal/transnational framework. Breivik notes that, unlike hearing people, who form their identities from familial roots and local senses of place, deaf individuals often find themselves distanced from their own families and akin to other deaf people in far locations. His study records emerging deaf identities, which he observes are always in the making, and if settled, only temporarily so. To capture the identification processes involved, he relies upon a narrative perspective to trace identity as temporarily produced through autobiographical accounts or capsule life stories. As a result, he has produced in-depth accounts of how core questions of identity are approached from different deaf points of view."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 220 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1563682761 1563683350 9781563682766 9781563683350 |