Mean Little Deaf Queer A Memoir

Name: Mean Little Deaf Queer A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780807073315

ISBN-10: 0807073318

ISBN-13: 9780807073315

Edition: 2010

Authors: Terry Galloway

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When Terry Galloway was born on Halloween, no one knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system. After her family moved from Berlin, Germany, to Austin, Texas, hers became a deafening, hallucinatory childhood where everything, including her own body, changed for the worse. But those unwelcome changes awoke in this particular child a dark, defiant humor that fueled her lifelong obsessions with language, duplicity, and performance.As a ten-year-old self-proclaimed "child freak," she acted out her fury with her boxy hearing aids and Coke-bottle glasses by faking her own drowning at a camp for crippled children. Ever since that first…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 6/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Prologue: Nine



Drowning


Them and Me


Visions


Presto Change-o


Meaner


The Performance of Drowning


Lost Boy



Passing


Little-d Deaf


On Being Told No


Passing Strange


Drag Acts


Shhhhhh!


Jobs for the Deaf


The Shallow End



Emerging


Scare


Who Died and What Killed Them


Why I Should Matter


Epilogue: A Happy Life ...