Literatura surda: contribuições linguísticas para alunos surdos, os sujeitos da experiência visual na área da educação.

Abstract

The paper deals with the contributions of the deaf literature to the education of the deaf in a bilingual perspective. The deaf construct their meanings through visual experience that pervades the deaf culture. The circulation of deaf literature in the education of the deaf helps the constitution of deaf identities. For the accomplishment of this article it was necessary to carry on a research about the authors of the area of education of deaf people in conjunction with the field of deaf and classic literature, of which adaptations were made. The research was developed based on existing materials, consisting mainly of books and scientific articles. A brief survey of works published in Brazil was performed, mainly in children's literature.