The invention of miracles : language, power, and Alexander Graham Bell's quest to end deafness
Booth, Katie (Writing instructor)2021
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A revelatory revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell - renowned inventor of the telephone and powerful enemy of the deaf community. When Alexander Graham Bell first unveiled his telephone to the world, it was considered miraculous. But few people know that it was inspired by another supposed miracle: his work teaching the deaf to speak. The son of one deaf woman and husband to another, he was motivated by a desire to empower deaf people by integrating them into the hearing world, but he ended up becoming their most powerful enemy, waging a war against sign language and deaf culture that still rages today. 'The Invention of Miracles' tells the dual stories of Bell's remarkable, world-changing invention and his dangerous ethnocide of deaf culture and language. It also charts the rise of deaf activism and tells the triumphant tale of a community reclaiming a once-forbidden language.
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London : Scribe UK, 2021.
Collation:
416 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781913348403 (hbk)
Dewey class:
362.4283362.428
LC class:
HV2426
Local class:
362.4283
Language:
English
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BRN:
2870909