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"Lennard J. Davis grew up as the hearing child of deaf parents. In this candid, affecting, and often funny memoir, he recalls the joys and confusions of this special world, especially his complex and sometimes difficult relationships with his working-class Jewish immigrant parents." "Growing up in a crowded one-bedroom South Bronx tenement, Lennard felt himself "a hearing outsider" caught between two worlds. Davis recounts childhood loneliness and fear, adolescent frustration compounded by embarrassment at his parents' deafness, and intellectual aspirations that ran counter to their compliant stoicism. He vividly describes his father's devotion to race walking and to televised baseball games, a trip to England with his mother on the Queen Elizabeth, and his successful efforts to relocate his family to a better apartment. He also recounts his problematic relationship with his elder brother, whom he both idolized and feared, and his college years at Columbia University, where (to his parents' chagrin) he participated in the historic campus demonstrations of May 1968." "In a moving epilogue, Davis tells of his adult involvement with CODA (Children of Deaf Adults) and of coming to terms with a surprising realization. "Though I was hearing," he says, "deafness was in me.""--Jacket
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monografia Rebiun39417631 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun39417631 m o d cr ||||||||||| 990603s2000 ilua o 000 0aeng 2019718385 930708060 932311246 1036750794 9780252090943 epub) 0252090942 0252025334 cloth : alk. paper) 9780252025334 AU@ 000054953130 22573/ctt2mxhzv JSTOR DLC eng rda DLC JSTOR N$T IDEBK TEFOD DEBSZ EBLCP P@U YDXCP OCLCF AGLDB MERUC IOG EZ9 INARC VNS VTS AU@ LVT STF M8D OCLCO OCLCA OCLCO TXE OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCL OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCL OCLCA OCLCQ n-us--- SOC029000 bisacsh SOC026010 bisacsh BIO026000 bisacsh BIO 021000 bisacsh POL 038000 bisacsh SOC 002010 bisacsh SOC 022000 bisacsh 306.874/092 B 21 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ddc/E3kxtvVHGDGdW8W3Vd4XJ6qpVY Davis, Lennard J. 1949-) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvxr4XdpqphQJXmRxF3Qq My sense of silence memoirs of a childhood with deafness Lennard J. Davis Urbana University of Illinois Press [2000] Urbana Urbana University of Illinois Press 2000 1 online resource 1 online resource Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Creative nonfiction Includes bibliographical references The grain of sounds -- Language and the word of my father -- The two mothers -- Brother's keeper -- Honeymoon with mom -- Schooling -- Adolescence -- College and other awakenings "Lennard J. Davis grew up as the hearing child of deaf parents. In this candid, affecting, and often funny memoir, he recalls the joys and confusions of this special world, especially his complex and sometimes difficult relationships with his working-class Jewish immigrant parents." "Growing up in a crowded one-bedroom South Bronx tenement, Lennard felt himself "a hearing outsider" caught between two worlds. Davis recounts childhood loneliness and fear, adolescent frustration compounded by embarrassment at his parents' deafness, and intellectual aspirations that ran counter to their compliant stoicism. He vividly describes his father's devotion to race walking and to televised baseball games, a trip to England with his mother on the Queen Elizabeth, and his successful efforts to relocate his family to a better apartment. He also recounts his problematic relationship with his elder brother, whom he both idolized and feared, and his college years at Columbia University, where (to his parents' chagrin) he participated in the historic campus demonstrations of May 1968." "In a moving epilogue, Davis tells of his adult involvement with CODA (Children of Deaf Adults) and of coming to terms with a surprising realization. "Though I was hearing," he says, "deafness was in me.""--Jacket Davis, Lennard J. 1949-) Davis, Lennard J. 1949-) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvxr4XdpqphQJXmRxF3Qq Children of deaf parents- United States- Biography Deaf parents- United States- Biography Deaf people- Family relationships- United States- Case studies Enfants de parents sourds- États-Unis- Biographies Parents sourds- États-Unis- Biographies Personnes sourdes- Relations familiales- États-Unis- Études de cas SOCIAL SCIENCE- People with Disabilities. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY- Social Scientists & Psychologists. POLITICAL SCIENCE- Public Policy- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE- Anthropology- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE- Popular Culture. Children of deaf parents. Deaf people- Family relationships. Deaf parents. Biografie. Gehörlosigkeit. Psychosoziale Situation. United States. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq Creative nonfiction, American Biographies. Case studies. Print version My sense of silence 0252025334 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 99006618 Creative nonfiction (Urbana, Ill.)