CHAPTER 62:

"Is there a Deaf literature" 

According to HBO "Literature", means fiction, nonfiction, essay, journalism, memoirs, stories, poetry, plays, and all manner or hybrids, with the emphasis on creativity (365). There is a distinction between "literature created by people who happen to be deaf" and "expressing a deaf viewpoint". Literature is very diverse, of course there is deaf literature!! There are numerous different classifications (blind, disabled, outcasts) of people who produce movies, etc. This chapter is interesting to me because it puts literature in perspective if you think back on much of the literature today, it is easy to pick out characteristics presented in this chapter. It is important that people know that deaf people are capable of achieving almost every aspect of life as a hearing person does and many deaf people have participated in all genres of literature. Deaf creativity also is very interesting to me in this chapter, which is based on sign language. ASL literature is certainly another genre in itself but nonetheless still literature.