A literatura surda pode ser escrita: o que nos diz a vida da poeta surda Laura Searing, já no século xix?

• Ano de defesa: 2024
• Autor(a) principal: Coutinho, Gislene Rodrigues da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo; BR; Mestrado em Educação; Centro de Educação; UFES; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação
• Palavras-chave em Português: Educação de surdos; Literatura surda escrita; Poeta surda; Educação
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/19454

"Deaf literature can be written: what does the life of the deaf poet Laura Searing, already in the nineteenth century, tell us?" It is a historical research on the life and work of the deaf poet Laura Searing. The purpose of this work is to tell the story of Laura Catherine Redden Searing, an American, born in 1839. Show the events of his life, contextualizing them with his literary production, highlighting his linguistic profile. This research also evidences his political articulations that transcended literature to the point of inspiring the name of a city in the state of Minnesota, United States. To this end, the general objective is to understand how Laura Searing challenged social norms and dominant representations about deafness, developing a counter-conduct that questioned and subverted the power structures that marginalized deaf people of her time. The specific objectives of this epistolary research are: a) to understand the power relations present in 19th-century society that influenced Laura Searing life; b) translate story and her production into our contemporary world; c) analyze how Laura Searing constructed herself based on her subjectivity as a deaf writer woman and d) problematize deaf literature as written literature. This research follows the theme of the history of deaf education and belongs to a series of researches about Deaf Education developed by GIPLES participants. Several sources of information were analyzed, such as documents, letters, and other historical evidence of Laura Searing life, which are considered monuments in the documents in the perspective of Le Goff (2013) and Foucault (2014). Regarding the notions of literature, we considered those discussed by Candido (2006) and Foucault (2009, 2016). Bosi (2002, 2015) conceptualizes literature as resistance. Sutton-Spence (2021) presents the concept of literature in sign language. To understand what a biography is, we used the concepts presented by Dosse (2015), Lira Neto (2022), and Cassio (2022). We highlighted how Laura Searing trajectory and literary production contributed significantly to deaf resistance and female empowerment.