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Shaw, Claire (2016) Deafness and the politics of hearing. In: Romaniello, Matthew P. and Starks, Tricia, (eds.) Russian history through the senses : from 1700 to the present. London: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, pp. 193-218. ISBN 9781474263139
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Abstract
In 1983, the linguist, teacher, and child of deaf parents Iosif Florianovich Geil’man wrote that “we live in a world of surprisingly diverse sounds. In fact, speech, music and natural sounds, which convey lasting, active information, play an exceptionally important role in the formation of an individual’s personality and his creative activity.” This chaper will interrogate the connection Geil’man posits between sound and selfhood by looking at the history the deaf community in the Soviet context. By focusing on how influential theorists such as Vygotskii, Pavlov, and even Stalin himself understood the “tragedy” of deafness, it will explore how Soviet ideologues conceptualized sound and speech as fundamental to human experience and development. Yet it will also consider how the deaf community engaged with and challenged such theories, framing themselves as exemplary Soviet people, and carving out pockets of Soviet silence amidst the sound and fury of logocentric Soviet culture.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc | ||||
| Place of Publication: | London | ||||
| ISBN: | 9781474263139 | ||||
| Book Title: | Russian history through the senses : from 1700 to the present | ||||
| Editor: | Romaniello, Matthew P. and Starks, Tricia | ||||
| Official Date: | 22 September 2016 | ||||
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| Number of Pages: | 320 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 193-218 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781474263160.ch-009 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
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