Oral Literature - Deaf Culture

Deaf Culture

Although deaf people communicate manually rather than orally, their culture and traditions are considered in the same category as oral literature. Stories, jokes and poetry are passed on from person to person with no written medium.

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    “You are now
    In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow
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    Yet in its depth what treasures!”
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