Outcasts and angels : the new anthology of deaf characters in literature

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Label

Outcasts and angels : the new anthology of deaf characters in literature

Title remainder

the new anthology of deaf characters in literature

Statement of responsibility

edited by Edna Edith Sayers

Contributor

• Sayers, Edna Edith

Subject

• Characters and characteristics
• Characters and characteristics in literature
• Deaf -- Mental health services
• Deaf in literature
• People with disabilities
• People with disabilities in literature

Language

• eng
• fre
• ita
• kor
• lit
• eng

Summary

"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 Grus̆as, Julian Barnes, and many other international authors broaden the scope of this updated inquiry into the deaf literary character. Sayers's introduction and closing essay bring any disparate parts together, completing Outcasts and Angels as a fitting, contemporary companion to the original classic collection"--Page 4 of cover

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

808.8/035272

Index

no index present

LC call number

PN56.5.H35

LC item number

O98 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography