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South of Deafness Deafness and Modern Fiction of the US South

Although the US South is often described as having a culture of the voice, South of Deafness: Deafness and Modern Fiction of the US South draws on deafness studies to imagine an alternate South composed of those who do not fit into its oral and aural boundaries. This book explores deafness in modern Southern fiction, which has both shaped and been shaped by the way our dominant culture "hears" deaf people. Too often the critical tendency in reading fictional portrayals of deafness has been to label it as some form of loss. The result is that the deaf person commonly gets viewed as a trope for alienation, inaccessibility, and incompleteness. Informed by a linguistic and cultural approach to deafness, South of Deafness seeks to reclaim the values associated with deafness. Not only does

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