This month’s The Nightstand picks from Sara Nović
Getting to know deaf literature
EDITOR’S NOTE: In conversations with our experts for this installation, we learned that there is some question still about whether it’s more appropriate to use capital-D Deaf, lowercase-d deaf, or some combination of the two. We also learned that the National Deaf Center has chosen to use the lowercase-d version of the term, which is, in their words, inclusive of “people who may identify as deaf, deafblind, deafdisabled, hard of hearing, late-deafened, and hearing impaired.” In our interviews, however, we have opted to honor the usage that each interviewee preferred to use, so you may see some discrepancy between our experts.
When I first started planning this column, I sent a call out to my network to ask what literatures they would like to see covered in it. One answer, from a colleague in the work I do in inclusion
