TY - JOUR AU1 - Brueggemann, Brenda Jo, AB - 312 Biography 31.2 (Spring 2008) does much to support Ferguson’s contention that “we are now in a moment in which institutionalization is the standard of the evolved and developed critical subject.” work cited Ferguson, Roderick A. “Administering Sexuality; or The Will to Institutionality.” Radical History Review 100 (Winter 2008): 158–69. Mark McLelland Hartig, Rachel M. Crossing the Divide: Representations of Deafness in Biog- raphy. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet UP, 2006. 161 pp. ISBN 1-5636- 8298-2, $29.95. A biographical treatment of three deaf French biographers’ treatments of their deaf subjects. In each central chapter, Hartig first constructs her own biog - raphies of the three late nineteenth and early twentieth century deaf biogra- phers at the focus of her book—Jean-Ferdinand Berthier, Yvonne Pitrois, and Corinne Rocheleau. Arguing that each of these three biographers approach- es his/her “subject” as a way of approaching self—“to explore their inner- most selves and deal with feelings of ambivalence about their own deafness” (viii)—Hartig suggests that each of these three biographers writes as a way to cross a cultural divide that exists between deaf and hearing people. The open- ing and closing chapters first discuss the general (autobiographical) nature of biographical form, and then, in conclusion, TI - Crossing the Divide: Representations of Deafness in Biography (review) JF - Biography DA - 2008-09-18 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-hawai-i-press/crossing-the-divide-representations-of-deafness-in-biography-review-sAryOjZJW4 SP - 312 EP - 312 VL - 31 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -