Forest Books: Owen Wrigley Politics Of Deafness (pb)

Owen Wrigley has a decade of experience working and living in the Deaf community in Thailand. In this academic volume, he uses this experience to challenge the conventional interpretation of deafness as the lack of sensory function, and states his intention to disrupt 'normal' thought about the condition of deafness as a physical deficiency. This provocative work discusses Deaf culture as subject to a form of 'colonisation' by the dominant Hearing culture, and exposes and attacks presumptions and practices that derive from this. Related analysis also addresses tensions little noted in the current literature on deafness and discusses the popular move to reconstitute Deafness as a global culture. Paperback 289 pages June 1996