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Deaf American Prose: 19802010 (Gallaudet Deaf Literature Series, Vol. 1) (Volume 1),Used
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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 tradition, that of American Sign Language. During the last several decades, however, a burgeoning bilingual deaf experience has ignited an explosion of Deaf writing that has pushed the potential of ASLinfluenced English to extraordinary creative heights. Deaf American Prose: 19802010 presents a diverse crosssection of stories, essays, memoirs, and novel excerpts by a remarkable cadre of Deaf writers that mines this rich, bilingual environment.The works in Deaf American Prose frame the Deaf narrative in myriad forms: Tom Willard sends up hearing patronization in his wicked satire What Exactly Am I Supposed to Overcome? Terry Galloway injects humor in Words, her take on the identity issues of being hard of hearing rather than deaf or hearing. Other contributors relate familiar stories about familiar trials, such as Tonya Stremlaus account of raising twins, and Joseph Santinis short story of the impact on Deaf and hearing inlaws of the death of a son. The conflicts are wellknown and heartfelt, but with wrinkles directly derived from the Deaf perspective.Several of the contributors expand the Deaf affect through ASL glosses and visual/spatial elements. Sara Stallard emulates ASL on paper through its syntax and glosses, and by eliminating English elements, a technique used in dialogue by Kristen Ringman and others. Deaf American Prose features the work of other wellknown contemporary Deaf writers, including coeditor Kristen Harmon, Christopher Jon Heuer, Raymond Luczak, and Willy Conley. The rising Deaf writers presented here further distinguish the first volume in this new series by thinking in terms of what they can bring to English, not what English can bring to them.
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