Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, ©2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Harmon, Kristen
• Nelson, Jennifer L., 1965-

Description

xviii, 329 pages; 26 cm.

Summary

This inaugural volume in the series contains 48 short stories that provide a variety of perspectives on deaf life. Among the titles are The Deaf Conspirators, Looking for the Music in Myself, I Am Not My Ears, Going Native at Ben Bahan's House, and Burrito Monster. Author profiles and discussion questions are included. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Series Statement

The Gallaudet deaf literature series ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Gallaudet deaf literature series ; v. 1.

Subject

• 1900-2099
• Deaf, Writings of the, American
• American prose literature > 20th century
• American prose literature > 21st century
• American literature > 20th century
• American literature > 21st century
• Deaf authors
• American literature
• American prose literature

Genre/Form

• Literature.
• Littérature.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The Sonic Boom of 1994 / Mervin Garretson -- The Deaf Conspirators / Eugene Bergman -- Islay, Chapter One / Douglas Bullard -- My Life on Paper / Shanny Mow -- Homecoming / Aaron Weir Kelstone -- Words / Terry Galloway -- Lost Atlantis / Mary Thornley -- How to Write Like a Hearing Reporter / Tom Willard -- Read My Lips / Brenda Jo Brueggemann -- Characters in El Paso / Willy Conley -- The Ear / Willy Conley -- Hardly Heard / Janet (JD) Dykes -- Looking for the Music in Myself / Michael Chorost -- Poster Child (Told in American Sign Language Gloss) / Raymond Luczak -- Deaf Girls Can / Carl Wayne Denney -- Stoffel's Guide to Snazzy Responses: Deaf-Blind Edition / Scott Stoffel -- Local Deaf Woman Abandons Twin Infants / Tonya Stremlau -- Gonna Buy You a Mockingbird / Kristen Harmon -- DEAF-inism / Abiola Haroun -- My Life as a Color Wheel / Abiola Haroun -- On the Bottom / Christopher Jon Heuer -- The Church Interpreter and My Sex Life: / Christopher Jon Heuer -- Adventures in Parent-Child Communication / Christopher Jon Heuer -- The Deaf Person's Guide to Teaching ASL / Mary Ruth Summers -- I Think I Hear You / Joshua Swiller -- I Am Not My Ears / Vikki Porter -- Holding Up / Pamela Wright -- Whispering with Cranes / Pamela Wright -- Nympholepsy / Jed Gallimore -- Thank God for ABC Cards! / Jed Gallimore -- A Thumbs Up for District One Hospital / Trudy Suggs -- Going Native at Ben Bahan's House / Joseph Valente -- Coffee Shop Story No. 1 / Sara Stallard -- Hole in House Real Pish (An OJ & PJ Story) / Sara Stallard -- What That ASL Dialect / Sara Stallard -- Little Feet / Rosa Lee Timm -- Great Expectations / John Lee Clark -- I Am Death. See Me Roar / Christy Smith -- King Eddie / Louise Stern -- Torn: An Excerpt from Makora: A Novel / Kristen Ringman -- Clark's Wife / Joseph Santini -- Lytopedia / Joseph Santini -- Devilishly Good Dim Sum: exculentus bona epulae / Bobby Cox -- Blushing / Allison Polk -- Dandelion / Allison Polk -- Goodbye, My Valentine / Shoshannah Stern -- Burrito Monster / Richard Bailey -- The Influence of the Spanish Inquisition on Colonial Europe / Joshua Feldman -- The Buzz Buzz Boom / Seth Gore.

ISBN

• 9781563685231
• 156368523X
• 9781563685248
• 1563685248

LCCN

• 2012003638
• 99968017025

OCLC

• ocn767562804
• 767562804
• SCSB-1666331

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library