Deaf-Hearing Family Life
Three Mothers’ Poetic Voices of Resistance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2385577 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donna E West (0000-0002-2326-6210, corresponding author), Donna West (University of Bristol) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 732-740 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800411420974 |
| OpenAlex | W2058932505 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
This article brings together poetic narratives of three women-two hearing and one deaf-who are mothers to both deaf and hearing children. When asked, "What's the story of your family?" they each uncover, discover, and recover narratives that embrace politics, spirituality, marginalization, ignorance, resistance, love, care, and celebration. Their stories-signed, spoken, and written-deconstruct and reconstruct intimate and poignant experiences of negotiation between deaf and hearing worlds, between sign and word, between acceptance and judgment, and, in particular, in response to a particular piece of government legislation. In the United Kingdom, monocultural, multigenerational deaf families are the exception rather than the rule; therefore, questions of cultural knowledge transmission, reproduction, and survival are endlessly troubled, contested, and reclaimed in bicultural, bilingual deaf-hearing families, particularly in the face of dominant, mainstream discourses of disability and normalization. The three women's narratives repair and bear witness to misunderstood and marginalized deaf and hearing lives. As sign language has no written form, the stories are re-presented here as poetic texts as a way not only to bridge the gap between "oral" narrative and the written (translated) word but also to bring to life on the page the inherent poetry of their resistance stories. 1
American Sign Language · Art · Linguistics · Literature · Manually coded language · Narrative · Sign language · Sociology · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Subtitles and Audiovisual Media
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2023 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |