African Heroes and Heroines
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Not silent, invisible: literature's chance encounters with deaf heroes and heroines.
Literature is both a rich resource and a blunt instrument in conveying the complexities of identity, in particular, the elusive deaf identity. The rarity of the fully realized deaf person in memoir and fiction shapes the way readers regard deaf people and throws up fresh challenges in redesigning stories of deafness free of the taint of triumphalism or complaint. Competing but authentic represe...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Negro History
سال: 1939
ISSN: 0022-2992
DOI: 10.2307/2714375