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Thursday, May 18, 2006
Listening with the “Third Ear”
Exploring the Connections Between Hearing and
Deafness
in Experimental, Deaf, and Multicultural Theater
Until now, no comparative study between deaf theaters and experimental, Deaf,
and multicultural theaters has ever been done. Interdisciplinary scholar Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren investigates
these connections in
Hearing
Difference: The Third Ear in Experimental, Deaf, and Multicultural Theater. “These intersections of
hearing, deafness, multiculturalism, and performance indicate newly emerging
cultural practices,” notes Kochhar-Lindgren. “Several scholars have laid
much of the critical groundwork on the importance of Deaf studies. My own
work—in which I expand the model of what I am calling the ‘third ear’ as a
device for a cross-sensory listening across domains of sound, silence, and the
moving body in performance—forms a partial response to, and an elaboration of,
[these scholars’] wide-ranging labors.”
Employing her model while charting a genealogy of the theater of the third ear
from the mid-1800s to the 1960s, Kochhar-Lindgren concludes, “The intersections
of deafness and hearing have several implications for the theoretical
construction of deafness. The deconstruction of deafness and hearing as it
relates to the notion of the third ear provides us with a method of hearing
across perceptual domains. We can also begin to understand some of our failures,
as multiculturalists, to hear each other and to engage in interchange that is
more fully intersubjective and transactive. Such a poetics of hearing is carved
out by the mutually reciprocating spatialities of the listening body, as it
continues to dance.”
Read more about this absorbing study in an
excerpt from chapter 2, “History
of the Theater of the Third Ear,” now. And, by using your exclusive
subscriber discount, save 20% off the regular price when you order Hearing
Difference
online. In the “Comments or Special Instructions” box below your credit card
information, type in “MAY0620%.” Or, order by
mail.
 The
Press launched its fall 2005 season with the all-new, completely revised fourth
edition of
Linguistics of American Sign Language: An Introduction by Clayton Valli,
Ceil Lucas, and Kristen Mulrooney. In the spring 2006 issue of the Journal of
Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, the reviewer remembers the first edition
and fittingly notes of the fourth edition that “[T]his textbook remains a
valuable resource for educators and students alike. The changes and expansions
that have been made have mostly improved the book, and I look forward to using
this textbook in my future classes on ASL linguistics.” Read the full review
here.
Long established as the authoritative text in its field, this new edition
features a completely revised section on morphology and syntax, 18 new and
updated readings, and new homework assignments based on the accompanying DVD.
View the text
table of contents and the
DVD contents,
and also read an excerpt from part 3,
Morphology and
Syntax. Order Linguistics of American Sign Language, 4th Edition
here.
Jan-Kåre Breivik’s Deaf
Identities in the Making: Local Lives, Transnational Connections, another
title in the Press’s fall 2005 lineup, also garnered a fine notice from the
Journal of Deaf
Studies and Deaf Education: “[T]he book presents a deep and
penetrating exploration of forms of deaf identity and how these may be
constructed in local, national, and transnational contexts. It is presented in a
most readable style, and I found that I was more and more drawn into the stories
and was looking forward to finding how the author would draw these disparate
accounts together. I particularly recommend the book for teachers, counselors,
and even for parents of young deaf children.”
Deaf Identities in the Making is based on anthropological research among
deaf Norwegians, with a focus upon their life stories. Profiles of ten Norwegian
Deaf people living within a translocal/transnational framework depict how core
questions of identity are approached from different deaf points of view. Read
chapter 1 “Being,
Becoming, and Longing,” and
order Deaf Identities in the Making.
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