Contributions by Cynthia Neese Bailes, Nina Batt, Lijun Bi, Helene
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 Children,
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, intergenerational tensions between hearing and
nonhearing family members, and the complications of establishing
self-identity in increasingly complex societies. Contributors
explore most of the major genres of children's literature and film,
including realistic fiction, particularly young adult novels, as
well as works that make deft use of humor and parody. Further,
scholars consider the expressive power of multimodal forms such as
graphic novel and film to depict experience from the perspective of
children. Representation of the point of view of child characters
is central to this body of work and to the intersections of
deafness with discourses of diversity and social justice. The child
point of view supports a subtle advocacy of a wider understanding
of the multiple ways of being D/deaf and the capacity of D/deaf
children to give meaning to their unique experiences, especially as
they find themselves moving between hearing and Deaf communities.
These essays will alert scholars of children's literature, as well
as the reading public, to the many representations of deafness
that, like deafness itself, pervade all cultures and are not
limited to specific racial or sociocultural groups.
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