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Signing in Puerto Rican - a Hearing Son and His Deaf Family by Andres Torres (Paperback, 2009)

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The only child of deaf Puerto Rican immigrants, Andres Torres grew up in New York City in a large, extended family that included several deaf aunts and uncles. In Signing in Puerto Rican: A Hearing Son and His Deaf Family, he opens a window into the little kwn culture of Deaf Latis chasing the immigrant American dream. Like many children of deaf adults (codas), Torres loved his parents deeply but also longed to be free from being their interpreter to the hearing world. Torres s story is unique in that his family communicated in three languages. The gatherings of his family reverberated with deaf talk, in sign, Spanish, and English. What might have struck outsiders as a strange chaos of gestures and mixed spoken languages was just rmal for his family. Torres describes his early life as one of conflicting influences in his search for identity. His parents deep involvement in the Puerto Rican Society for the Catholic Deaf led him to study for the priesthood. He later left the seminary as his own ambitions took hold. Torres became very active in the Puerto Rico independence party against the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement and protest against the Vietnam War. Throughout these defining events, Torres s journey never took him too far from his Deaf Puerto Rican family roots and the passion of arms, hands, and fingers filling the air with simultaneous translation and understanding.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Gallaudet University Press,U.S.
ISBN-10
1563684179
ISBN-13
9781563684173
eBay Product ID (ePID)
141586077

Product Key Features

Author
Andres Torres
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Autobiography: General

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
Washington, DC
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Author Biography
Andres Torres Is Researcher at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, New York, NY.
Date of Publication
31/12/2009
Country of Publication
United States

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