Outcasts and Angels
The New Anthology of
Deaf Characters in Literature
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Edited by Edna Edith Sayers
Gallaudet University Press
Washington, DC
Contents
Introduction
Daniel Defoe
England, 1729
Charlotte Elizabeth
England, 1841
Henry William Bishop
USA, 1868
Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
France, 1883
Ambrose Bierce
USA, 1891
Annie Trumbull Slosson
USA, 1896
Richard Dehan
England, 1915
Viola Meynell
England, 1924
Gianna Manzini
Italy, 1929
Howard T. Hofsteater
USA, 1930
Kim Tongni
Korea, 1936
1
From The Life and Adventures
of Mr. Duncan Campbell
11
From Letter VIII: The Dumb Boy,
in Personal Recollections
15
Jerry and Clarinda
21
The Unknown
38
Chickamauga
48
Clavis
53
Under the Electrics: A Show-Lady
Is Eloquent
60
We Were Just Saying
65
The Wife of the Deaf Man
72
Dummy
77
Portrait of a Shaman
82
Isak Dinesen
Denmark, 1937
Karomenya, from Out of Africa
103
Juozas Grusas
Lithuania, 1937
Fairer Than the Sun
105
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I Should Worry
113
Miss Cudahy of Stowes Landing
119
Flannery O'Connor
USA, 1955
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
138
Gordon Woodward
Canada, 1955
The Edge of Sound
147
Charmed Lives
158
The Sibyl
167
And Sarah Laughed
172
The Sextons Deaf Son
183
Like a Native
186
From Chapter 3 of I slay
195
Speech
200
My Father's Darling
205
Sheila Kohler
USA/Republic of
South Africa, 1990
Miracles in America
216
Pauline Melville
England/Guyana, 1990
A Quarrelsome Man
225
The Secret
235
Of Silence and Slow Time
248
Weldon Kees
USA, 1939
George P. Elliott
USA, 1954
Nadine Gordimer
Republic of South Africa, 1956
Warren Kliewer
USA, 1964
Joanne Greenberg
USA, 1967
Rasheed A. Gbadamosi
Nigeria, 1969
Joanne Greenberg
USA, 1985
Douglas Bullard
USA, 1986
Richard Umans
USA, 1986
Carole Glickfeld
USA, 1989
Florence V. Mayberry
USA, 1992
Karawynn Long
USA, 1995
Contents
Morris Smith
USA, 1997
Stone Deaf
267
Marlin Barton
USA, 2009
Into Silence
276
Julian Barnes
England, 2009
The Limner
294
Reading Deaf Characters
303
Works Cited
352
Permissions and Credits
359
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