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Signing the Body Poetic
Essays on American Sign Language Literature
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Published/Copyright:
2006
About this book
This unique collection of essays, accompanied by videos, at last brings a dazzling view of the literary, social, and performative aspects of American Sign Language to a wide audience. The book presents the work of a renowned and diverse group of deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing scholars who examine original ASL poetry, narrative, and drama. The videos showcases the poems and narratives under discussion in their original form, providing access to them for hearing non-signers for the first time. Together, the book and videos provide new insight into the history, culture, and creative achievements of the deaf community while expanding the scope of the visual and performing arts, literary criticism, and comparative literature.
The videos may be viewed online at ucpress.edu/go/signingthebodypoetic.
The videos may be viewed online at ucpress.edu/go/signingthebodypoetic.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Dirksen Bauman
H-Dirksen L. Bauman is Professor in the Department of American Sign Language and Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University. Jennifer L. Nelson is Professor in the Department of English at Gallaudet University. Heidi M. Rose is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Villanova University.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Contents of the Dvd
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Foreword
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Preface: Utopian Gestures
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Acknowledgments
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Users’ Guide
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1. Introduction
1 - Part One. Framing ASL Literature
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2. Face-to-Face Tradition in the American Deaf Community: Dynamics of the Teller, the Tale, and the Audience
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3. The Camera as Printing Press: How Film Has Influenced ASL Literature
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4. Deaf American Theater
71 - Part Two. The Embodied Text: “Writing” and Vision in ASL Literature
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5. Getting out of Line: Toward a Visual and Cinematic Poetics of ASL
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6. Textual Bodies, Bodily Texts
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7. The Poet in the Poem in the Performance: The Relation of Body, Self, and Text in ASL Literature
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8. ASL Literature Comes of Age: Creative “Writing” in the Classroom
147 - Part Three. The Political Text: Performance and Identity in ASL Literature
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9. “If there are Greek epics, there should be Deaf epics”: How Protest Became Poetry
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10. Visual Screaming: Willy Conley’s Deaf Theater and Charlie Chaplin’s Silent Cinema
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11. Hearing Things: The Scandal of Speech in Deaf Performance
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Afterword
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Appendix A. Time Line of ASL Literature Development
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Appendix B. ASL Video References
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Contributors
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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July 22, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9780520935914
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292
eBook ISBN:
9780520935914
Keywords for this book
essay collection; essay anthology; social studies; american sign language; hard of hearing; hearing impaired; performing arts; literary criticism; academic; scholarly; disability studies; disabilities; asl literature; deaf literature; narrative; drama; historical; culture; deaf community; deaf; audience; comparative literature; asl poetry; asl; diverse; dvd; dvd included; literary
