Abstract:

The last sixty years have been a time of tumultuous change in the American deaf community. Two deaf figures who made a great difference during this period were Frank Bowe and Jack Gannon, who passed away in 2007 and 2022, respectively. Bowe was a prominent disability rights leader, helping to secure more rights for deaf and all disabled Americans, while Gannon helped to advance appreciation of deaf signing communities with his advocacy and several influential studies of deaf people who sign. Although they both lived in the second half of the twentieth century and knew each other, they had quite different lives, mostly because Bowe did not attend a school for deaf students or learn sign language until he was an adult, while Gannon grew up in the deaf community. Their memoirs offer a valuable way for us to investigate the details of recent deaf experience. The books illuminate not only Bowe and Gannon's work to make the world a more just place for deaf people, but also the pressure they both experienced to adopt oralism, the importance of parents and educational placement, the liberating nature of sign language, and the move from deaf schools to educational mainstreaming. The memoirs also give differing perspectives on signing deaf people's complicated relationship with concepts of disability, suggesting a way forward.

摘要：

过去六十年是美国聋人社区发生动荡变化的时期。在此期间产生重大影响的两位聋人人物是弗兰克鲍和杰克甘农，他们分别于 2007 年和 2022 年去世。鲍是一位杰出的残疾人权利领袖，帮助确保聋人和所有美国残疾人享有更多权利，而甘农通过他的倡导和对聋人手语的几项有影响力的研究，帮助提高了对聋人手语社区的认识。尽管他们都生活在 20 世纪下半叶并且彼此认识，但他们的生活却截然不同，主要是因为 Bowe 直到成年才进入聋人学校或学习手语，而 Gannon 在聋人社区。他们的回忆录为我们提供了一种有价值的方式来调查近期聋人经历的细节。这些书不仅阐明了 Bowe 和 Gannon 为使世界成为聋人更公正的地方所做的工作，而且还阐明了他们都经历过采用口语的压力、父母和教育安置的重要性、手语的解放性质以及移动从聋人学校到教育主流化。这些回忆录还对手语聋人与残疾概念的复杂关系给出了不同的观点，提出了前进的方向。以及从聋人学校向教育主流化的转变。这些回忆录还对手语聋人与残疾概念的复杂关系给出了不同的观点，提出了前进的方向。以及从聋人学校向教育主流化的转变。这些回忆录还对手语聋人与残疾概念的复杂关系给出了不同的观点，提出了前进的方向。