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Author | : John Lee Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780979881671 |
This celebration of short stories, poems, and essays gives us a glimpse into the Deaf signing community, something that literature by hearing authors featuring deaf characters has rarely done. Between these covers, a Deaf couple fights over their son's language use, an Australian woman joins the community as an adult, a Deaf woman's body is fished out a dumpster, and a British Deaf poet wants to keep "zombies"-hearing people-out. The range of perspectives is astonishing, including opposing views. In one story, a hearing journalist tells us about the infamous Milan congress of educators who banned sign language in 1880, while in another story, a Deaf woman tells us what it's like to have a hearing journalist interview her and her husband for a "human interest" story. Even in pieces that are about just one Deaf person, readers get a powerful sense of life in one of the most vibrant and least understood communities.
Author | : Nyle DiMarco |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2022-04-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0063062380 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A heartfelt and inspiring memoir and celebration of Deaf culture by Nyle DiMarco, actor, producer, two-time reality show winner, and cultural icon of the international Deaf community Before becoming the actor, producer, advocate, and model that people know today, Nyle DiMarco was half of a pair of Deaf twins born to a multi-generational Deaf family in Queens, New York. At the hospital one day after he was born, Nyle “failed” his first test—a hearing test—to the joy and excitement of his parents. In this engrossing memoir, Nyle shares stories, both heartbreaking and humorous, of what it means to navigate a world built for hearing people. From growing up in a rough-and-tumble childhood in Queens with his big and loving Italian-American family to where he is now, Nyle has always been driven to explore beyond the boundaries given him. A college math major and athlete at Gallaudet—the famed university for the Deaf in Washington, DC—Nyle was drawn as a young man to acting, and dove headfirst into the reality show competitions America’s Next Top Model and Dancing with the Stars—ultimately winning both competitions. Deaf Utopia is more than a memoir, it is a cultural anthem—a proud and defiant song of Deaf culture and a love letter to American Sign Language, Nyle’s primary language. Through his stories and those of his Deaf brothers, parents, and grandparents, Nyle opens many windows into the Deaf experience. Deaf Utopia is intimate, suspenseful, hilarious, eye-opening, and smart—both a memoir and a celebration of what makes Deaf culture unique and beautiful.
Author | : Alicia Suskin Ostriker |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 2014-01-15 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0822979659 |
This book by a major American poet is for poetry readers at all levels, academic and non-academic. It is a sequence of poems that will surprise and delight readers—in the voices of an old woman full of memories, a glamorous tulip, and an earthy dog who always has the last word.
Author | : Thomas K. Holcomb |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 553 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0197503233 |
"You are about to enter the realm of Deaf culture, a world that may be completely new to you. Intriguingly, insiders and outsiders to this world may regard it in two completely different fashions. Let us examine this contradiction with the proverbial glass of water that can be viewed as either half-full or half-empty"--
Author | : Cormac McCarthy |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2010-08-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307762521 |
25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
Author | : Asphyxia |
Publisher | : Annick Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2021-11-09 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1773215302 |
Part coming of age, part call to action, this fast-paced #ownvoices novel about a Deaf teenager is a unique and inspiring exploration of what it means to belong. Smart, artistic, and independent, sixteen year old Piper is tired of trying to conform. Her mom wants her to be “normal,” to pass as hearing, to get a good job. But in a time of food scarcity, environmental collapse, and political corruption, Piper has other things on her mind—like survival. Piper has always been told that she needs to compensate for her Deafness in a world made for those who can hear. But when she meets Marley, a new world opens up—one where Deafness is something to celebrate, and where resilience means taking action, building a com-munity, and believing in something better. Published to rave reviews as Future Girl in Australia (Allen & Unwin, Sept. 2020), this empowering, unforgettable story is told through a visual extravaganza of text, paint, collage, and drawings. Set in an ominously prescient near future, The Words in My Hands is very much a novel for our turbulent times.
Author | : Annabelle Hayse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781941026359 |
When you're disabled, you don't have to be naked to be naked.
Author | : Ben Philippe |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2020-10-13 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062824279 |
From the award-winning author of The Field Guide to the North American Teenager comes a whip-smart and layered romantic comedy. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jenny Han. Henri “Halti” Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. He is a star debater and popular student at the prestigious FATE academy, the dutiful first-generation Haitian son, and the trusted dog walker for his wealthy New York City neighbors. But his easy smiles mask a burning ambition to attend his dream college, Columbia University. There is only one person who seems immune to Henri’s charms: his “intense” classmate and neighbor Corinne Troy. When she uncovers Henri’s less-than-honest dog-walking scheme, she blackmails him into helping her change her image at school. Henri agrees, seeing a potential upside for himself. Soon what started as a mutual hustle turns into something more surprising than either of them ever bargained for. . . . This is a sharply funny and insightful novel about the countless hustles we have to keep from doing the hardest thing: being ourselves.
Author | : Joseph P. Shapiro |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2011-06-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0307798321 |
“A sensitive look at the social and political barriers that deny disabled people their most basic civil rights.”—The Washington Post “The primer for a revolution.”—The Chicago Tribune “Nondisabled Americans do not understand disabled ones. This book attempts to explain, to nondisabled people as well as to many disabled ones, how the world and self-perceptions of disabled people are changing. It looks at the rise of what is called the disability rights movement—the new thinking by disabled people that there is no pity or tragedy in disability and that it is society’s myths, fears, and stereotypes that most make being disabled difficult.”—from the Introduction
Author | : George Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2022-11-22 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
This is a satirical comedy about several political ideologies that the characters expound on, often in extended monologues. The entire play revolves around a simple "conflict of interests" between a king and his prime minister. The story follows the fictional English King Magnus as he wrestles with Prime Minister Proteus and his cabinet as they seek to deprive the monarchy of its remaining political power. However, the king is adamant about taking independent positions against his Prime Minister, which leads to a clash between the two. Will the King eventually outwits the Minister