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Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, ...
ISBN
9781563683053

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Gallaudet University Press
ISBN-10
1563683059
ISBN-13
9781563683053
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30527695

Product Key Features

Book Title
Deaf Hearing Boy : a Memoir
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Topic
People with Disabilities, General
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Author
R. H. Miller
Book Series
Deaf Lives Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
8.6 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-047078
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
This book is an excellent source for those who are curious about the lives of deaf people in the years prior to, during World War II, and afterwards. For the lay reader, it opens the door to better understanding of such lives. The inner dialogues Robert describes throughout the book are very typical of CODAs. Overall, readers will find this book enjoyable, educational, fascinating, and probably emotional. This book can be considered as a supplemental reading for Deaf Culture, Deaf History and Family Communication courses. This book would be also helpful for deaf parents who have just had hearing babies so they can better understand the emotions their own children may go through. Naturally, CODAs will enjoy this book, knowing they are not alone.
Series Volume Number
2
Dewey Decimal
306.874/087/2
Synopsis
Born in 1938, R. H. Miller was the oldest of four hearing boys with deaf parents in Defiance, Ohio, a small agricultural community. Deaf Hearing Boy is Miller's compelling account of the complex dynamics at work in his family, including the inter-generational conflicts in which he found himself, the oldest child of deaf adults (CODA), caught in the middle. In 1942, Miller's family moved to Toledo so that his father could find work. There, they fared well during World War II because his father worked in manufacturing as a member of Roosevelt's "civilian army." Miller's mother loved urban life, where she and the family could immerse themselves in the Toledo Deaf community, especially at the Toledo Silent Club. The end of the war marked the end of prosperity for the Miller family. Returning soldiers displaced all of the deaf workers, who then had to scrape for a living. The Millers, close to destitution, returned to the family farm in Defiance. Miller depicts the return to farm life as one of tremendous hardship, both economically and psychologically. They lived off the land from hand to mouth. He also describes his grandparents' distrust of his parents because they were deaf, and he writes candidly of his role as an unwilling agent in the misunderstandings between them. Miller also portrays the bias he endured in school and town. Parents of girlfriends would force their daughters to stop dating him for fear that his family's deafness would be passed down. In the early 1950s, Miller's grandparents sold the farm and his parents returned to industrial work. Miller excelled at school, and eventually left home for college and life in academia. His later reflections reveal a deep, abiding respect for his parents, despite his early difficulties. Deaf Hearing Boy presents an intimate depiction of a changing time for hearing and deaf Americans alike, when the family farm disappeared and the isolation of Deaf people also began to fade. In witnessing this transformation of society through his family's life, Miller adds an important chapter to the collective narrative of Deaf people, one made all the more poignant and vivid as told by their Deaf Hearing boy.
LC Classification Number
HQ759.912.M55 2004

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