As contribuições dos Estudos Culturais nos Estudos Surdos: (des)construção da identidade surda

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Karlene Ferreira
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Lima, Claudia de Souza Martins
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Muiraquitã (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufac.br/index.php/mui/article/view/6782
• topic: Cultural studies. Deaf identity. Deaf studies. Differences.; Estudos culturais. Identidade surda. Estudos surdos. Diferenças.

This essay aims to present some reflections on the relationship between deafness as a linguistic difference and Deaf and Cultural Studies, moving away from the clinical stereotype of disability. In order to achieve the objective proposed in this essay, we used a qualitative methodological approach in bibliographic research, based on the following research question: "How do Deaf and Cultural Studies contribute to the understanding of deafness as a linguistic and cultural difference, moving away from the clinical approach to disability? The consultation of works by researchers such as Brito (1979), Felipe (1991), Skliar (1997) and Quadros and Karnopp (2004), among others, were fundamental for the reflections proposed in this essay. The association of libras with disability keeps the deaf person as deficient, incapable and incomplete. Approaching deafness from a medical-therapeutic perspective assumes that it can be rehabilitated or cured. By adopting the perspective of cultural studies, deafness is seen as difference and the deaf person is recognized as a minoritized linguistic subject with their own cultures or deaf cultures.