Esme Cleall, "Colonising Disability: Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
New Books in Disability Studies
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The Deaf Identity in the Community
In this chapter, I argue that deaf people came to inhibit distinct cultural identities as a tip. They identify with what they call the death world, or in some cases, the death nation. Contempory theorists have argued that deaf identity is so strong that it operates as a form of ethnicity. In concluding, I asked whether the deaf community was not also determined by class, race and gender.
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