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Signing the Body Poetic : Essays on American Sign Language Literature

ISBN: 9780520229761 | 0520229762

Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Pub. Date: 12/20/2006

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Summary Table of Contents

This unique collection of essays, accompanied by a pioneering DVD, 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 DVD 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 DVD 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.

CONTENTS OF THE DVD

FOREWORD

William C. Stokoe

xiii

PREFACE: UTOPIAN GESTURES

W.J.T. Mitchell

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

xxv

USERS' GUIDE

xxvii

1 Introduction

H-Dirksen L. Bauman,Jennifer L. Nelson, Heidi M. Rose

PART ONE FRAMING ASL LITERATURE

2 Face-to-Face Tradition in the American Deaf Community: Dynamics of the Teller, the Tale, and the Audience

Ben Bahan

(30)

3 The Camera as Printing Press: How Film Has Influenced ASL Literature

Christopher B. Krentz

(20)

4 Deaf American Theater

Cynthia Peters

(24)

PART TWO THE EMBODIED TEXT: "WRITING" AND VISION IN ASL LITERATURE

5 Getting out of Line: Toward a Visual and Cinematic Poetics of ASL

H-Dirksen L. Bauman

(23)

6 Textual Bodies, Bodily Texts

Jennifer L. Nelson

118

(12)

7 The Poet in the Poem in the Performance: The Relation of Body, Self, and Text in ASL Literature

Heidi M. Rose

130

(17)

8 ASL Literature Comes of Age: Creative "Writing" in the Classroom

Liz Wolter

147

(22)

PART THREE THE POLITICAL TEXT: PERFORMANCE AND IDENTITY IN ASL LITERATURE

9 "If there are Greek epics, there should be Deaf epics": How Protest Became Poetry

Kristen C. Harmon

169

(26)

10 Visual Screaming: Willy Conley's Deaf Theater and Charlie Chaplin's Silent Cinema

Carol L. Robinson

195

(21)

11 Hearing Things: The Scandal of Speech in Deaf Performance

Michael Davidson

216

AFTERWORD

Carol A. Padden

235

(6)

APPENDIX A: TIME LINE OF ASL LITERATURE DEVELOPMENT

241

(12)

APPENDIX B: ASL VIDEO REFERENCES

253

(2)

CONTRIBUTORS

255

(2)

INDEX

257

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