UID:
edocfu_9960761479702883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages)
Series Statement:
Gallaudet Deaf Literature Series ; Volume 2
Content:
This new anthology showcases the work of Deaf writers during a critical formative period in their history. From 1830 to 1930, these writers conveyed their impressions in autobiographies, travel narratives, romances, non-fiction short stories, editorials, descriptive pieces, and other forms of prose. The quick, often evocative snapshots and observations featured here, many explicitly addressing deafness and sign language, reflect their urgency to record Deaf American life at this pivotal time. Using sensory details, dialogue, characterization, narrative movement, and creative prose, these writers emphasized the capabilities of Deaf people to counter events that threatened their way of life. The volume opens with “The Orphan Mute,” a sentimental description of the misfortune of deaf people written by John Robertson Burnet in 1835. Less than 50 years later, James Denison, the only Deaf delegate at the 1880 Convention of Instructors of the Deaf in Milan, published his “impressions” that questioned the majority’s passage of a strict oralism agenda. In 1908, Thomas Flowers wrote “I was a little human plant,” a paean to education without irony despite the concurrent policy banning African Americans from attending Gallaudet College. These and a host of other Deaf writers —Laurent Clerc, Kate Farlow, Edmund Booth, Laura Redden Searing, Frieda W. Bauman, Vera Gammon, Isaac H. Benedict, James Nack, John Carlin, Joseph Mount and many more — reveal the vitality and resilience of Deaf writers in an era of wrenching change. Jennifer L. Nelsonis a professor in the Department of English at Gallaudet University. Kristen C. Harmon is a professor in the Department of English at Gallaudet University.
Note:
Title from title page (viewed May 15, 2020).
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Foreword / Christopher Krentz -- Introduction / Jennifer L. Nelson and Kristen C. Harmon -- The orphan mute, 1835 ; My sister's funeral, 1835 / John Robertson Burnet -- Law proceedings, 1839 ; The last words of a bachelor, 1839 / James Nack -- Visits to some of the schools for the deaf and dumb in France and England, 1848 / Laurent Clerc -- The wonderful coffee-mill, 1849 / Unknown -- Aaerial navigation by a deaf-mute, 1855 / Isaac H. Benedict -- A family history, 1856 / Mary St. Cloud Belches -- Recollections of a deaf and dumb teacher, 1858 ; A leaf from a teacher's diary, 1865 / Joseph Mount, "Joe the Jersey mute" -- Exerpt from The Scratchsides family / John Carlin -- The realm of singing, c. 1872 ; The Widow Waring's Christmas surprise, 1872 / Howard Glyndon (Laura Redden Searing) -- Selections from Adventures of a deaf-mute in the White Mountains, 1874 / William B. Swett -- Impressions of the Milan Convention, 1881 / James Denison -- Booth's reminiscences of Gallaudet, 1881 / Edwin (Edmund) Booth -- Selections from Silent life and silent language, or, the Inner life of a mute, 1883 / Kate M. Farlow -- Scene in a railroad station, 1893 / W.C -- A romance of far away Cuba, 1900 / Frieda W. Bauman -- What one girl hears and sees, 1901 ; What one girl hears and sees (continued), 1901 / Hypatia Boyd -- Reflections of a deaf-mute philosopher, 1903 / Douglas Tilden -- What I am doing, 1905 / Helen Keller -- Is it beneficial to a deaf oralist to learn the sign language, 1906 / Alice C. Jennings -- More extracts from the "Zeno" Mss: the so-called "Tribe of fools," 1907 / Douglas Tilden -- Bro. Hart's "Something greater," 1908 / Alice Taylor Terry -- Life after graduation, c. 1908 / Thomas Flowers -- A sophomore's revenge, 1896-1910 / Howard L. Terry -- New vision for the blind, 1913 / Helen Keller -- The little sign for friend, 1915 ; Enchanted princess, 1916-1934 / Margaret Prescott Montague -- Sound-why not let it alone? 1919 / Alice Taylor Terry -- The three doors to knowledge, 1919 / Vera Gammon -- The test of the heart, 1921 ; Miss Hester of Sunset Valley, 1921 / Guie Leo Deliglio -- De mortuis nil nisi bonum, 1922 / George W. Veditz -- Selections from Mickey's harvest: the checkered life of an unusual boy, 1922 / Howard L. Terry -- Pro and con, 1923 ; A Christmas story, 1923 / James F. Brady -- A New York deaf artist at Hollywood: some experinces in getting a foothold in the movie studios of Hollywood, 1925 / Albert V. Ballin -- By their signs ye shall know them, 1926 / James F. Brady -- In an impromptu Don Quixotic tilt with a modern wind mill, caled Automobile, with dire results to himself, 1926 / Albert V. Ballin -- A fight with a highwayman, 1927 / Roger Demosthenes O'Kelly -- The life of a lousy extra, 1928 / Albert V. Ballin -- The wound, 1930 / Howard T. Hofsteater -- Afterword / Octavian Robinson.
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In English.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Literature.
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Creative nonfiction.
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