D/deaf and d/dumb
Subtitle: a portrait of a deaf kid as a young superhero
By: Joseph Michael Valente
Series: Disability studies in education -- v. 10
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9781433107146; 9781433107153
Subjects: Deaf children; Imagination
Other titles: Deaf and dumb
Description: "D/Deaf and d/Dumb chronicles the author's dumb, 'deaf kid' origins in Bayport, New York to his current life as a young superhero writer. Portraying the conflicting cultural worlds of hearing and Deaf, it describes his life in an in-between underworld and his identity as it alternates between being oppressed and empowered. These feelings are inescapably and forever the reality of those who live on the margins of our larger society'-- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.