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Signing the body poetic : essays on American Sign Language literature
Title
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.
ISBN
0520229754 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520229754 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520229762 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520229761 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
Physical Description
xxviii, 264 p. : ill. ; 23 cm + 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.).
Notes
"Includes DVD."
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 26, 2011
Bibliography
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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