Abstract
Franz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks describes the experience of the recently de-colonized members of the Negro (as he refers to those of African descent) population living in Europe, particularly France, in the 1960s. A little over a decade later, Edward Said published Orientalism, thus adding to a growing discipline of scholarship in the fields of art, literature, and cultural studies called “Postcolonialism.” My essay attempts to show that Deaf persons who communicate with each other using sign language can be viewed as a colonized group, and that applying postcolonial theory to the study of their culture is appropriate.
DOI
10.5642/lux.201301.19
Recommended Citation
Loughran, Steven
(2013)
"Cultural Identity, Deafness and Sign Language: A Postcolonial Approach,"
LUX: A Journal of Transdisciplinary Writing and Research from Claremont Graduate University:
Vol. 2:
Iss.
1, Article 19.
Available at:
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/lux/vol2/iss1/19
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