Deaf American prose 1980-2010 / edited by Kristen Harmon and Jennifer Nelson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harmon, Kristen, editor.

Nelson, Jennifer L., 1965- editor.

Series:

Gallaudet deaf literature series ; v. 1.

Gallaudet deaf literature series ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deaf people's writings, American.

American literature--20th century.

American literature.

Deaf authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Gallaudet University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Deaf life, the personal narrative holds sway because most Deaf individuals recall their formative years as solitary struggles to understand and to be understood. Few deaf people in the past related their stories in written form, relying instead on a different kind of "oral" tradition, that of American Sign Language. During the last several decades, however, a burgeoning bilingual deaf experience has ignited an explosion of Deaf writing that has pushed the potential of ASL-influenced English to extraordinary creative heights. Deaf American Prose: 1980-2010 presents a diverse cross-section of stories, essays, memoirs, and novel excerpts by a remarkable cadre of Deaf writers that mines this rich, bilingual environment. The works in Deaf American Prose frame the Deaf narrative in myriad forms: Tom Willard sends up hearing patronization in his wicked satire "What Exactly Am I Supposed to Overcome?" Terry Galloway injects humor in "Words, " her take on the identity issues of being hard of hearing rather than deaf or hearing. Other contributors relate familiar stories about familiar trials, such as Tonya Stremlau's account of raising twins, and Joseph Santini's short story of the impact on Deaf and hearing in-laws of the death of a son. The conflicts are well-known and heartfelt, but with wrinkles directly derived from the Deaf perspective. Several of the contributors expand the Deaf affect through ASL glosses and visual/spatial elements. Sara Stallard emulates ASL on paper through its syntax and glosses, and by eliminating English elements, a technique used in dialogue by Kristen Ringman and others. Deaf American Prose features the work of other well-known contemporary Deaf writers, including co-editor Kristen Harmon, Christopher Jon Heuer, Raymond Luczak, and Willy Conley. The rising Deaf writers presented here further distinguish the first volume in this new series by thinking in terms of what they can bring to English, not what English can bring to them.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Mervin Garretson - The Sonic Boom of 1994

Eugene Bergman - The Deaf Conspirators

Douglas Bullard - Islay, Chapter One

Shanny Mow - My Life on Paper

Aaron Weir Kelstone - Homecoming

Terry Galloway - Words

Mary Thornley - Lost Atlantis

Tom Willard - How to Write Like a Hearing Reporter

Brenda Jo Brueggemann - Read My Lips

Willy Conley - Characters in El Paso

Willy Conley - The Ear

Janet (JD) Dykes - Hardly Heard

Michael Chorost - Looking for the Music in Myself

Raymond Luczak - Poster Child (Told in American Sign Language Gloss)

Carl Wayne Denney - Deaf Girls Can

Scott Stoffel - Stoffel's Guide to Snazzy Responses: Deaf-Blind Edition

Tonya Stremlau - Local Deaf Woman Abandons Twin Infants

Kristen Harmon - Gonna Buy You a Mockingbird

Abiola Haroun - DEAF-inism

Abiola Haroun - My Life as a Color Wheel

Christopher Jon Heuer - On the Bottom

Christopher Jon Heuer - The Church Interpreter and My Sex Life: Adventures in Parent-Child Communication

Mary Ruth Summers - The Deaf Person's Guide to Teaching ASL

Joshua Swiller - I Think I Hear You

Vikki Porter - I Am Not My Ears

Pamela Wright - Holding Up

Pamela Wright - Whispering with Cranes

Jed Gallimore - Nympholepsy

Jed Gallimore - Thank God for ABC Cards!

Trudy Suggs - A Thumbs Up for District One Hospital

Joseph Valente - Going Native at Ben Bahan's House

Sara Stallard - Coffee Shop Story No. 1

Sara Stallard - Hole in House Real Pish (An OJ &amp

PJ Story)

Sara Stallard - What That ALS Dialect

Rosa Lee Timm - Little Feet

John Lee Clark - Great Expectations

Christy Smith - I Am Deaf. See Me Roar

Louise Stern - King Eddie

Kristen Ringman - Torn: An Excerpt from Makora: A Novel

Joseph Santini - Clark's Wife

Joseph Santini - Lytopedia.

Bobby Cox - Devilishly Good Dim Sum: exculentus bona epulae

Allison Polk - Blushing

Allison Polk - Dandelion

Shoshannah Stern - Goodbye, My Valentine

Richard Bailey - Burrito Monster

Joshua Feldman - The Influence of the Spanish Inquisition on Colonial Europe

Seth Gore - The Buzz Buzz Boom.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781563685248

1563685248

OCLC:

826442835