Signing the body poetic : essays on American Sign Language literature / H.-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson, Heidi M. Rose, editors ; with a foreword by William C. Stokoe and a preface by W.J.T. Mitchell.
Publisher:
University of California Press,
Copyright Date:
c2006
Description:
xxviii, 264 p. : ill. ; 23 cm + 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.).
"Includes DVD." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / H.-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson, Heidi M. Rose -- Face-to-face tradition in the American deaf community : dynamics of the teller, the tale, and the audience / Ben Bahan -- The camera as printing press : how film has influenced ASL literature / Christopher B. Krentz -- Deaf American theater / Cynthia Peters -- Getting out of line : toward a visual and cinematic poetics of ASL / H.-Dirksen L. Bauman -- Textual bodies, bodily texts / Jennifer L. Nelson -- The poet in the poem in the performance : the relation of body, self, and text in ASL literature / Heidi M. Rose -- ASL literature comes of age : creative "writing" in the classroom / Liz Wolter -- "If there are Greek epics, there should be deaf epics" : how protest became poetry / Kristen C. Harmon -- Visual screaming : Willy Conley's deaf theater and Charlie Chaplin's silent cinema / Carol L. Robinson -- Hearing things : the scandal of speech in deaf performance / Michael Davidson -- Afterword / Carol A. Padden -- Appendix A: Time line of ASL literature development -- Appendix B: ASL video references.
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