Deaf Rights as Human Rights: Delimiting the Human with Literatures of “The Hearing Line”

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ABSTRACT:Bringing together the heretofore separate theorizations of Deafnicity and the hearing line, this article shows how reading the hearing line in literature becomes crucial to understanding Deafnicity and promoting Deaf rights. This article presents Angeline Fuller-Fischer’s Scenes in the History of the Deaf and Dumb and Annie C. Dalton’s To Viola Meynell as resistance literature that countered Viola Meynell’s advancement of the international doctrine of eugenics in We Were Just Saying. Speaking to Sign Language Peoples’ contemporary arguments for human and group rights, Angeline Fuller-Fischer and Annie C. Dalton redefined what it means to be deaf, a hearing ally, and “human.”