Writing deafness
Subtitle: the hearing line in nineteenth-century American literature
By: Christopher Krentz.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780807831182; 9780807858103
Subjects: Deaf -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Deaf, Writings of the, American; Deaf authors; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I write what you speak : writing and the emergence of the American deaf community, 1816-1835; title: Essaying the unsayable : the deaf presence in Antebellum American literature; title: Powers of deafness : deaf characters by hearing authors; title: A sense of two-ness : deaf double consciousness at midcentury; title: Playing with the hearing line : deafness, passing, and laughter.