Outcasts and angels : the new anthology of deaf characters in literature / edited by Edna Edith Sayers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sayers, Edna Edith, editor.

Language:

English

French

Italian

Korean

Lithuanian

Subjects (All):

Deaf people in literature.

People with disabilities in literature.

Characters and characteristics in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 361 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Gallaudet University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1976, Trent Batson and Eugene Bergman released their classic Angels and Outcasts: An Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature. In it, they featured works from the 19th and 20th centuries by well-known authors such as Charles Dickens and Eudora Welty. They also presented less-well-known deaf authors, and they prefaced each excerpt with remarks on context, societal perceptions, and the dignity due to deaf people. Since then, much has transpired, turning around the literary criticism regarding portrayals of deaf people in print. Edna Edith Sayers reflects these changes in her new collection Outcasts and Angels: The New Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature.

Sayers mines the same literary vein as the earlier volume with rich new results. Her anthology also introduces rare works by early masters such as Daniel Defoe. She includes three new deaf authors, Charlotte Elizabeth, Howard T. Hofsteater, and Douglas Bullard, who offer compelling evidence of the attitudes toward deaf people current in their eras. In search of commonalities and comparisons, Sayers reveals that the defining elements of deaf literary characters are fluid and subtly different beyond the predominant dueling stereotypes of preternaturally spiritual beings and thuggish troglodytes.

Contents:

From The life and adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell / Daniel Defoe

From Letter VIII: the dumb boy, in Personal Recollections / Charlotte Elizabeth

Jerry and Clarinda / Henry William Bishop

The unknown / Auguste Villiers deL'Isle-Adam

Chickamauga / Ambrose Bierce

Clavis / Annie Trumbull Slosson

Under the electrics: a show-lady is eloquent / / Richard Dehan

We were just saying / Viola Meynell

The wife of the deaf man / Gianna Manzini

Dummy / Howard T. Hofsteater

Portrait of a Shaman / Kim Tongni

Karomenya, from Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen

Fairer than the sun / Juozas Grušas

I should worry / Weldon Kees

Miss Cudahy of Stowes Landing / George P. Elliot

The life you save may be your own / Flannery O'Connor

The edge of sound / Gordon Woodward

Charmed lives / Nadine Gordimer

The Sibyl / Warren Kliewer

And Sarah laughed Joanne Greenberg

The Sexton's deaf son / Rasheed A. Gbadamosi

Like a native / Joanne Greenberg

From chapter 3 of Islay / Douglas Bullard

Speech / Richard Umans

My father's darling / Carole Glickfeld

Miracles in America / Sheila Kohler

A quarrelsome man / Pauline Melville

The secret / Florence V. Mayberry

Of silence and slow time / Karawynn Long

Stone deaf / Morris Smith

Into silence / Marlin Barton

The limner / Julian Barnes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-361).

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781563685408

156368540X

OCLC:

821733802