Children, Deafness, and Deaf Cultures in Popular Media - 9781496842046

Children, Deafness, and Deaf Cultures in Popular MediaAuthor(s): John Stephens, Vivian Yenika-Agbaw\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781496842046, 978-1496842046\nSynopsis\nContributions by Cynthia Neese Bailes, Nina Batt, Lijun Bi, Hlne Charderon, Stuart Ching, Helene Ehriander, Xiangshu Fang, Sara Kersten-Parish, Helen Kilpatrick, Jessica Kirkness, Sung-Ae Lee, Jann Pataray-Ching, Angela Schill, Josh Simpson, John Stephens, Corinne Walsh, Nerida Wayland, and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw\n\nChildren, Deafness, and Deaf Cultures in Popular Media examines how creative works have depicted what it means to be a deaf or hard of hearing child in the modern world. In this collection of critical essays, scholars discuss works that cover wide-ranging subjects and themes: growing up deaf in a hearing world, stigmas associated with deafness, rival modes of communication, friendship and discrimination, inter.