Belonging: An Autoethnography of a Life in Sign Language

by Noel O'Connell

Overview

This book weaves intensely personal and evocative stories into a layered autoethnographic text about the author's experience of childhood deafness, sign language and education. It is an important contribution to the study of deaf education, disability and deaf health and well-being.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034319003
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	06/30/2017
Edition description:	New
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Noel O’Connell is a postdoctoral fellow at the Research and Graduate School, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. He has worked as a lecturer in Irish Sign Language and deaf education and as a researcher in the area of translation and identity. He has published widely on autoethnography, deaf education and sign language.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS: A Childhood Divided – Narratives of Loss and Trauma – Religion, Oralism and Deaf Education in Ireland – Recreating Home and Culture and the Power of Stories – Watching the Watchers: Evocative Stories and Surveillance Matters – Gender, Love, Language and Relationships – Summer Childhood: Identity, Belonging and Meanings of Home – Behind the Teacher’s Back: Stories of Cultural Encounters – Reflections.