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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452102003321

Autore

Hartig Rachel Mildred

Titolo

Crossing the divide : representations of deafness in biography / / Rachel M. Hartig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : Gallaudet University Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

1-56368-372-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 161 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

362.4/20922

Soggetti

Deaf - History

Deaf

Biographers

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

On the nature of biographical form : is biography disguised autobiography? -- Crossing the divide : Yvonne Pitrois and Helen Keller dialogue about disability -- Jean-Ferdinand Berthier : the development of an activist -- Yvonne Pitrois : a journey from darkness to light -- Corinne Rocheleau : rescripting life as a deaf woman -- Biography in deaf hands : an analysis.