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

"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" tradit...

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Other Authors: Nelson, Jennifer L., 1965- (Editor), Harmon, Kristen (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, ©2012.
Series:Gallaudet deaf literature series ; v. 1.
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Table of 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 CanScott 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 CranesJed 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 & 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
  • LytopediaBobby 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.