Mean Little deaf Queer: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (698 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807073318 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Powerful, funny memoir takes a unique personal story and makes it universal Mean Little deaf Queer is remarkable -- this memoir transmutes Terry Galloway's unique, quirky, anguished, sometimes goofy but nevertheless powerful individual narrative into a larger exploration of the way we tell stories to ourselves and to others in order to construct our places in the world.Terry as a child experienced moments when she wa. "Terrific, dramatic and very funny" according to I. Sondel. Over the past decade I've read numerous memoirs by writers from the LGBT community, most notably by Dan Savage, Alison Bechdel and Augusten Burroughs. Obviously, some are more successful then others communicating their life's trials and tribulations. Terry Galloway's Mean Little Deaf Queer is successful for a myriad of reasons, the most prono. Ryan M. Claycomb said Storytelling from a Born Performer. Initially, I was baffled by a new bunch of memoirs by 80s and 90s performance artists like Tim Miller and Karen Finley--I sort of thought, "why write a book when you have already been telling these stories with your body, live, in front of a real audience?"Terry Galloway reminds us that at the center of all of this are the stories. Though I m
Killacky, The Gay and Lesbian Review"Galloway was born a storyteller, and her narrative gifts are in full force throughout, spinning yarns about herself and her family that mesmerize."—Robert Faires, Austin Chronicle. This is a damn fine piece of work which is unbelievably powerful.—Dorothy Allison"This is not your mother's triumph-of-the-human-spirit memoir. Yes, Terry Galloway is resilient. But she's also caustic, depraved, utterly disinhibited, and somehow sweetly bubbly, a beguiling raconteuse who periodically leaps onto the dinner table and stabs you with her fork. Partly David Sedaris-esque in its slice-of-life essay moments, part slapstick farce, so very real, and always laugh out loud hilarious."—Rebecca Sarwate, Edge"A humorous and harrowing new memoir."—The Ad
What could have been a bitter litany of complaint is instead an unexpectedly hilarious and affecting take on life.. As a self-proclaimed "child freak," she acted out her fury with her boxy hearing aids and Coke-bottle glasses by faking her own drowning at a camp for crippled children. No one yet knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system, eventually causing her to go deaf. In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. Ever since that first real-life performance, Galloway has used theater, whether onstage or off, to defy and transcend her reality. With disarming candor, she writes about her mental breakdowns, her queer identity, and living in a silent, quirky world populated by unforgettable characters
She divides her time between Austin and Tallahassee. Terry Galloway is the founder of the Actual Lives writing and performance programs; a founding member of Esther’s Follies, Austin, Texas’s legendary cabaret; and cofounder of the Mickee Faust Club in Tallahassee, Florida.