Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contents of the Dvd xi
4. Foreword xiii
5. Preface: Utopian Gestures xv
6. Acknowledgments xxv
7. Users’ Guide xxvii
8. 1. Introduction 1
9. Part One. Framing ASL Literature
10. 2. Face-to-Face Tradition in the American Deaf Community: Dynamics of the Teller, the Tale, and the Audience 21
11. 3. The Camera as Printing Press: How Film Has Influenced ASL Literature 51
12. 4. Deaf American Theater 71
13. Part Two. The Embodied Text: “Writing” and Vision in ASL Literature
14. 5. Getting out of Line: Toward a Visual and Cinematic Poetics of ASL 95
15. 6. Textual Bodies, Bodily Texts 118
16. 7. The Poet in the Poem in the Performance: The Relation of Body, Self, and Text in ASL Literature 130
17. 8. ASL Literature Comes of Age: Creative “Writing” in the Classroom 147
18. Part Three. The Political Text: Performance and Identity in ASL Literature
19. 9. “If there are Greek epics, there should be Deaf epics”: How Protest Became Poetry 169
20. 10. Visual Screaming: Willy Conley’s Deaf Theater and Charlie Chaplin’s Silent Cinema 195
21. 11. Hearing Things: The Scandal of Speech in Deaf Performance 216
22. Afterword 235
23. Appendix A. Time Line of ASL Literature Development 241
24. Appendix B. ASL Video References 253
25. Contributors 255
26. Index 257