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Deaf American Prose, 1830-1930 by Kristen C. Harmon (2013, Trade Paperback)
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Works are organized by date of publication and are introduced with information and background on the author. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ().
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Product Identifiers
PublisherGallaudet University Press
ISBN-101563685655
ISBN-139781563685651
eBay Product ID (ePID)159789664
Product Key Features
Book TitleDeaf American Prose, 1830-1930
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
TopicAnthologies (Multiple Authors), General, American / General, Poetry
GenreLiterary Criticism, Fiction, Literary Collections
AuthorKristen C. Harmon
Book SeriesGallaudet Deaf Literature Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight18.8 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number2
Dewey Decimal810.8092072
SynopsisThis 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, Freda 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., This new anthology showcases the works of Deaf writers during a critical formative period in their history, 1830-1930, emphasizing the capabilities of Deaf people to counter events that threatened their way of life.
LC Classification NumberPS591.D4D446 2013
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