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Title: The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa
Author: Josh Swiller
Publisher: Henry Holt
Year: 2007
Country: Zambia (placeholder)
281 pages
A problematic but potentially useful memoir. Swiller recounts his time in Zambia, where as a Peace Corps volunteer he appears to have violated ethical principles, flouted standards of cultural sensitivity and appropriateness, and generally been a cowboy. I say that the book is "useful" because I am going to use it in an ethics class as a casebook of how not to behave as a professional representing a service organization. That Swiller is deaf raises interesting questions about intersection of disability, identity, and behavior. Unfortunately, these questions aren't answered here.
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