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Contents Acknowledgments ix C HAP T E R I Rhetorical Constructions ofDeafness: DiscoveringAll the Available Means ofPersuasion 1 PART I Deafness as Disability CHAPTER 2 Deafness, Literacy, Rhetoric: Legacies ofLanguage and Communication 23 CHAPTER 3 "It's So Hard to Believe That YOu Pass':· A Hearing-Impaired Student Writing on the Borders ofLanguage 50 "-'Interlude 1: On (Almost) Passing 81 PART 2 Deafness as Pathology CHAPTER 4 Diagnosing Deafness: The Audiologist's Authority 103 "-'Interlude 2: Interpellations: "Call to A. G. Bell" and "Assessment ofthe Speech-Reception Threshold" 145 PART 3 Deafness as Culture C HAP T E R 5 The Coming Out ofDeafCulture: Repeating, Reversing, Revising Rhetorics 151 C HAP T E R 6 WVrds Another \.t7ay: OfPresence, Vision, Silence, and Politics in Sign Language Poetry 201 "-'Interlude 3: Are You Deafor Hearing? 237 Bibliography 261 Index 285 vii ...

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