04.03.01 Hein’s Castle
33rd clip of DC myth - Clip Title: Into the Castle. (07:36 m. - 3:14:07 h.)
This clip is posted with congratulations to Tayler and Jared for such a wonderful DR conference! I am seeing impacts DeafRead and the blogsphere are making on the deaf community. The Pepsi-AgBAD uproar and how the NAD response is bringing, as new and non members, more grassroot deaf people into the fray. The subtitling whining on all sides is brought out in the open. The audistic cochlear impanted experiences being posted in DeafRead had brought their views into the faces of the ASLans. And the vociferous deaf-mute ASLans being shoved into the English speaking throats. All that is WONDERFUL! The more interplay among different people within the deaf community will bring us all together inch by inch.
Enjoy this clip about when the Deaf Child is finally brought into Hein’s Castle.
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Is Hein’s Castle deprived from a real story about Samuel Heinicke, “Father of Oral Education” from Germany in early 1700’s?
Comment by Amy Cohen Efron | February 12, 2008
Most definitely so! Doctor Hein is a composite archtypal character based on European oralists such as Thomas Braidwood, Samuel Heinicke, Conrad Ammann, and Jacob Periere. WIll have to do the deaf history commentary here. So much depth this myth has and so little time to elaborate. Thanks for asking.
Comment by cnkatz | February 12, 2008
Not to nitpick, but it’s blogosphere, not blogsphere.
Comment by observer | February 12, 2008
Nitpicking accepted - I believe it could be both. Thanks, observer, anyway.
Wanted to correct the years Amy mentioned. Heinicke started his oral school in 1760 the same year Epee started his manual school in Paris. Yes, same year. It was not early but mid 1700’s when formal education of the deaf began.
Comment by cnkatz | February 12, 2008
Smiles - thanks for correcting about the date.
Now the next chapter says: Siepee’s Monastery - is that from Charles-Michel de l’Eppe and his Institution Nationale des Sourds-Muets à Paris that was founded in 1799?
Then, the Anglais Plaza chapter is from famous Deaf-Mute Banquets at Paris, France lead by Jean-Ferdinand Berthier?
VisMa’s Land - Martha’s Vineyard?
Milan Holocaust - the infamous Milan convention in 1880’s
The Tower Mountain - Gallaudet University
General Volt - Alexander Graham Bell
The Leather Book - Stokoe’s book/research on ASL?
VisMa’s Law - our hope that we follow Denmark’s model of bilingual education? ASL as a language?
I am so curious what you will have next!
Amy
Comment by Amy Cohen Efron | February 12, 2008
Amy, you are a delightful commenter!
One big thing I want to emphasize is that everything in this mythology are METAPHORS of anything that comes from deaf history or/and the deaf experience. There is no 100% connection between a character, place, or event in the myth to a specific deaf historical character, place, or event.
Yes, Siepee’s Monastery symbolizes Epee but not only him but many other things all rolled in one symbol. Monastery can mean a place where sign language thrived. This is getting ahead of the myth. Let’s wait until this fifth chapter is being posted.
Amy, you are “literally” right except for the last chapter, which symbolizes the future. The bilingual programs in Denmark and Sweden are symbolized in the late part of chapter 11, the Leather Book. Viewers will have to catch where it is being mentioned or, to use a better word, alluded.
Some characters or events are BIG archetypes (or symbols) while many others are smaller, briefly mentioned. Big and small archetypes are rolled into one gigantic metaphor which is this myth of The Deaf Child.
This is the beginning of fourth chapter with eight more to go, meaning some 8 more hours left. Grinning.
Happy viewing.
Comment by cnkatz | February 12, 2008
Hello Mr. Katz, You’ve been quite busy haven’t you! I’m just happy to have another piece of the Deaf Child to view after waiting two weeks. I felt alot of positive emotion in this part of the myth. The Deaf Child is at the beginning of a long and winding road to equality in education and understanding that ‘all men are created equal’. Hope your class, A.S.L II, is (sssshhhh) quiet and progressing along. Waiting for more Deaf Child soon, Jeanne Walker
Comment by Jeanne Walker | February 17, 2008