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"Talking Culture and Culture Talking" - Coggle Diagram
"Talking Culture and Culture Talking"
1.Talking Culture Vs Culture Talking
Talking Culture
Refers to talking about Deaf culture. For example their language, art, poetry, etc.
It is about processing identities and creating artifacts
Culture Talking:
Refers to how the Deaf community has maintained a discourse that was about their lives, beliefs, dreams, and how they view the world.
It's about expressing to each other our meanings and knowledge about our culture.
2. Pressures the Deaf Community had
Pressure #1
:
*Pressure from within
:*They found it hard to trust hearing individuals, and some were hesitant to teach ASL or share their language with the hearing world.
*Pressure #2:
Comply with writing traditions.*
They felt they needed to write about themselves and how they overcame deafness in order for their work to be considered interesting. That served as a constraint on other kinds of creative expression
Talking about culture required changes within the culture. They had to overcome some of the pressures that they had that stopped them from sharing their private world with the public.
**Pressure #3:
"Make nice" with hearing people.
Did not want to offend anyone with their beliefs, so they felt as if they needed to tell stories or white lies about themselves.
3. Deaf Art and Literature
Many struggled to find old ASL literature. They only old proof of literature that the Deaf community had was the stories told and written about the community.
There was a discussion about if Deaf art should have critics. Many were opposed to that but Tom suggested that it would be beneficial. He also said that we need to offer poets and performers a concept of Deaf art and literature that is not about collecting or producing art for public for the purpose of expressing ourselves.
There was a time where people questioned what is considered deaf literature. With very little proof of literature, Colleges and Universities were hesitant to accept ASL as a foreign language
Deaf art and literature can be viewed as cultural talking
'What we do' vs. 'What we have to do'
Culture talking is what we do. However, talking culture is what we have to do in order to project the private into public space.
Tom Humphries suggested that those in Deaf studies should find a balance between talking culture that attempts to prove something, and talking culture that explains how a culture has evolved overtime.