Outcasts and angels : the new anthology of deaf characters in literature /
Outcasts and angels : the new anthology of deaf characters in literature /
edited by Edna Edith Sayers.
- ix, 361 pages ; 26 cm
From The life and adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell / From Letter VIII: the dumb boy, in Personal Recollections / Jerry and Clarinda / The unknown / Chickamauga / Clavis / Under the electrics: a show-lady is eloquent / / We were just saying / The wife of the deaf man / Dummy / Portrait of a Shaman / Karomenya, from Out of Africa / Fairer than the sun / I should worry / Miss Cudahy of Stowes Landing / The life you save may be your own / The edge of sound / Charmed lives / The Sibyl / And Sarah laughed The Sexton's deaf son / Like a native / From chapter 3 of Islay / Speech / My father's darling / Miracles in America / A quarrelsome man / The secret / Florence V. Mayberry -- Of silence and slow time / Stone deaf / Into silence / The limner / Daniel Defoe -- Charlotte Elizabeth -- Henry William Bishop -- Auguste Villiers deL'Isle-Adam -- Ambrose Bierce -- Annie Trumbull Slosson -- Richard Dehan -- Viola Meynell -- Gianna Manzini -- Howard T. Hofsteater -- Kim Tongni -- Isak Dinesen -- Juozas GruĊĦas -- Weldon Kees -- George P. Elliot -- Flannery O'Connor -- Gordon Woodward -- Nadine Gordimer -- Warren Kliewer -- Joanne Greenberg -- Rasheed A. Gbadamosi -- Joanne Greenberg -- Douglas Bullard -- Richard Umans -- Carole Glickfeld -- Sheila Kohler -- Pauline Melville -- Karawynn Long -- Morris Smith -- Marlin Barton -- Julian Barnes.
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. Outcasts and Angels demonstrates these subtle variations in writings by Ambrose Bierce, Isak Dinesen, Nadine Gordimer, and Flannery O'Connor. Stories by Juozas Grušas, Julian Barnes, and many other international authors broaden the scope of this updated inquiry into the deaf literary character. Sayerss introduction and closing essay bring any disparate parts together, completing Outcasts and Angels as a fitting, contemporary companion to the original classic collection.
1563685396 9781563685392
2012022979
Deaf in literature
People with disabilities in literature
Characters and characteristics in literature.
PN56.5.H35 / O98 2012
808.8035272
From The life and adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell / From Letter VIII: the dumb boy, in Personal Recollections / Jerry and Clarinda / The unknown / Chickamauga / Clavis / Under the electrics: a show-lady is eloquent / / We were just saying / The wife of the deaf man / Dummy / Portrait of a Shaman / Karomenya, from Out of Africa / Fairer than the sun / I should worry / Miss Cudahy of Stowes Landing / The life you save may be your own / The edge of sound / Charmed lives / The Sibyl / And Sarah laughed The Sexton's deaf son / Like a native / From chapter 3 of Islay / Speech / My father's darling / Miracles in America / A quarrelsome man / The secret / Florence V. Mayberry -- Of silence and slow time / Stone deaf / Into silence / The limner / Daniel Defoe -- Charlotte Elizabeth -- Henry William Bishop -- Auguste Villiers deL'Isle-Adam -- Ambrose Bierce -- Annie Trumbull Slosson -- Richard Dehan -- Viola Meynell -- Gianna Manzini -- Howard T. Hofsteater -- Kim Tongni -- Isak Dinesen -- Juozas GruĊĦas -- Weldon Kees -- George P. Elliot -- Flannery O'Connor -- Gordon Woodward -- Nadine Gordimer -- Warren Kliewer -- Joanne Greenberg -- Rasheed A. Gbadamosi -- Joanne Greenberg -- Douglas Bullard -- Richard Umans -- Carole Glickfeld -- Sheila Kohler -- Pauline Melville -- Karawynn Long -- Morris Smith -- Marlin Barton -- Julian Barnes.
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. Outcasts and Angels demonstrates these subtle variations in writings by Ambrose Bierce, Isak Dinesen, Nadine Gordimer, and Flannery O'Connor. Stories by Juozas Grušas, Julian Barnes, and many other international authors broaden the scope of this updated inquiry into the deaf literary character. Sayerss introduction and closing essay bring any disparate parts together, completing Outcasts and Angels as a fitting, contemporary companion to the original classic collection.
1563685396 9781563685392
2012022979
Deaf in literature
People with disabilities in literature
Characters and characteristics in literature.
PN56.5.H35 / O98 2012
808.8035272