Controversy over the Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers' 1940 novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, is famous in its use of a deaf character as its central narrator.
This makes adaptation of the novel as a play or film problematic, as the narrative 'voice' features heavily throughout. One US playwright has taken the controversial decision to have the deaf character narrate throughout... using a hearing actor.
Predictably this has met with outrage in the deaf community. Read the full New York Times articleÌýhere:
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