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Chargement... The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafnesspar Katie Booth
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Well-researched dive into the foundations of oralism, with copious detail on AGBell’s life and philosophy. ( ) Despite it's size, it is a solid biography of Alec G. Bell (Alexander Graham Bell preferred this spelling) and his invention of the telephone. "The deaf, at that moment in time, were not imagined to have access to the complexities of language.." or thought. Alec disagreed, having a deaf mother and a deaf wife. His father created "Visible Speech", a system used to teach the deaf how to speak. On the other hand, "...ASL was widely considered...a rudimentary language for rudimentary beings." This is of course incredibly problematic and offensive, as today those who are deaf are certainly not abnormal and ASL is encouraged. Following his father's lead, Bell pursues the use of the telephone as a device in assisting deaf individuals to learn to talk aka "oralism", therefore stamping out the need for ASL. Later, as his obsession grows, his beloved wife becomes troubled, especially as students like Helen Keller are labeled as the standard, instead of the exception. "For every child who learned to speak there were nine children who struggled." Although his deaf wife wasn't fond of ASL, she didn't believe in a single, extreme oralist approach. Eventually a darker Bell emerges, a man so obsessed with "curing" the deaf that today, "he is sometimes referred to as the father of audism, of discrimination against the deaf." And yet, he himself had 2 children with a deaf woman. An accessible, compelling and enlightening historical account, that honestly anyone could read. This is the author's first book and I do sincerely hope she writes more. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"An astonishingly revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell, telling the true-and troubling-story of the inventor of the telephone. We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that's not how he saw his own career. Bell was an elocution teacher by profession. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach the deaf to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his teaching work; the telephone had its origins as a speech reading machine. And yet by the end of his life, despite his best efforts-or perhaps, more accurately, because of them-Bell had become the American Deaf community's most powerful enemy. The Invention of Miracles recounts an extraordinary piece of forgotten history. Weaving together a moving love story with a fascinating tale of innovation, it follows the complicated tragedy of a brilliant young man who set about stamping out what he saw as a dangerous language: Sign. The book offers a heartbreaking look at how heroes can become villains and how good intentions are, unfortunately, nowhere near enough-as well as a powerful account of the dawn of a civil rights movement and the triumphant tale of how the Deaf community reclaimed their once-forbidden language. Katie Booth has been researching this story for over a decade, poring over Bell's papers, Library of Congress archives, and the records of deaf schools around America. But she's also lived with this story for her entire life. Witnessing the damaging impact of Bell's legacy on her family would set her on a path that upturned everything she thought she knew about language, power, deafness, and the telephone"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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