Contents
Selected Time Line of Deaf History in Spain
Foreword | Samuel J. Supalla
Notes on the Translations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Birth of Oralism and Deafness as Metaphor
Grove of the Infirm (1455–60) | Teresa de Cartagena
Legal Treatise on Deaf-mutes (1550) | Licenciado Lasso
Simplification of the Letters of the Alphabet and Method of Teaching Deaf-mutes to Speak (1620) | Juan Pablo Bonet
Dedication to Bonet’s Simplification (1620) | Lope de Vega Carpio
“Letter to Juan Pablo Bonet, His Majesty’s Secretary” (1620) | Lope de Vega Carpio
Dedication to Bonet in Jorge Toledano (1621) | Lope de Vega Carpio
Marvels of Nature (1629) | Manuel Ramírez de Carrión
“Discourse 14, Volume 4,” Teatro crítico (1730) | Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro
“On the Invention of the Art of Teaching the Mute to Speak” (1751) | Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro
“News on the Subject of the Above Letter” (1752) | Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro
“Historical Introduction” (1890) | A. Farrar
Part II: The Return to Deaf Education
The Spanish School of Deaf-mutes, or Method of Teaching Them to Write and Speak the Spanish Language (1795) | Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro
“In Support of Deaf-mutes” (1795) | José Miguel Alea
“Speech Delivered on the Opening of the Royal School of Deaf-mutes, the Afternoon of the Sixteenth of October of 1814” | Tiburcio Hernández
Five Months in the United States of North America, from the Twentieth of April to the Twenty-third of September of 1835 (1836) | Ramón de la Sagra
The Silent World: Essays for the Dissemination of the Problems of Deaf-muteness (1914) | Alvaro López Núñez
The Deaf-mutes of Madrid (1915) | Miguel Gómez Cano
Part III: The Contemporary Deaf Experience
Isle of Silence (1978) | Inés Polo Merino
“Deaf People and Deaf-mutes” (1981) | Félix-Jesús Pinedo Peydró
“Postlingually Deaf People” (1981) | Félix-Jesús Pinedo Peydró
“Hearing in Madrid” (1984) | Félix-Jesús Pinedo Peydró
“The Deaf Can Now Request Interpreters!” (1986) | Félix-Jesús Pinedo Peydró
Prologue to the Spanish Edition (1994) of Seeing Voices | Oliver Sacks
“On the Right of Deaf Persons to Accessible Television, 1” (1997) | José Gabriel Storch de Gracia y Asensio
“The Right to Our Sign Language” (1999) | José Gabriel Storch de Gracia y Asensio
“The Fundamental Right to Communication” (1999) | José Gabriel Storch de Gracia y Asensio
Part IV: The Recognition of Deaf Language and Culture
Sign Language (1992) | María Ángeles Rodríguez González
“Spanish Sign Language (LSE): A True Language” (1995) | Félix-Jesús Pinedo Peydró
Sociological and Cultural Traits of Deaf People (2000) | Amparo Minguet Soto
“Sign Languages, Signs of Culture” (2000) | Ángel Herrero Blanco
Part V: Selection of Deaf Poetry
“From My Lighthouse of Silence” (1980) | José Luis Marroquín
“I Want to Scream!” (1980) | Daniel Alvarez Reyes
“The Voice of Deaf People” (1981) | Manuel Gamez Quintana
“My Silence” (1981) | Félix-Jesús Pinedo Peydró
“Integration of Deaf People” (1986) | Inés Polo Merino
“We Spit on Marginalization” (1986) | Pablo Jesús Sesma Valles
“A Call to Society” (1989) | Rakel Rodríguez Castrejón
“For My Hearing Daughters” (1980) | Dopin
“For Inés Polo” (1995) | Dopin
Index