Introduction: Deaf characters and deaf cultures in texts for children / John Stephens and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Part 1: Narratives of deafness
Writing the hearing line: representing childhood, deafness, and hearing through creative nonfiction / Jessica Kirkness
Mandy: a critical look at the portrayal of a deaf character / Cynthia Neese Bailes
Caped crusaders and lip-reading Pollyannas: the narrative and ideological function of humor in representations of deaf culture for young people / Nerida Wayland
"The deaf man turned a deaf ear": metaphors of deafness and the critical gaze in the works of la Comtesse de Segur, 1858-1865 / Helene Charderon
Subjectivity, theory of mind, and the creation of deaf characters in fiction / John Stephens
"The only thing you can't do is hear": Hurt Go Happy by Ginny Rorby / Helene Ehriander
Part 2: Deaf cultures in visual texts
"We are just as confused and lost as she is": the primacy of the graphic novel form in exploring conversations around deafness / Sara Kersten-Parrish
Childhood spaces and deaf culture in Wonderstruck and A Quiet Place / Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
(Mis-)communication scripts and cognition in Japanese deaf fictional film A Silent Voice (Koe no Katachi) / Helen Kilpatrick
Sociopolitical contexts for the representation of deaf youth in contemporary South Korean film / Sung-Ae Lee
Local Hawai'i children's literature: revitalizing Hawai'i sign language at the edge of extinction / Nina Benegas, Stuart Ching, and Jann Pataray-Ching
Part 3: Deafness and cultural difference
Intersections of deaf and queer embodiment in fiction for young people: "able-bodied sexual subjects" / Josh Simpson
Didacticism or seeking harmony with nature: contrasting presentations of deafness in contemporary Chinese children's literature / Lijun Bi and Xiangshu Fang
Examining deaf culture in coming-of-age novels within a multicultural framework / Angela Schill
Coda. From doctors' offices to doctor of philosophy: a deaf woman's journey / Corinne Walsh.
