Signing the Body Poetic Essays on American Sign Language Literature

Name: Signing the Body Poetic Essays on American Sign Language Literature
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ISBN: 9780520229761

ISBN-10: 0520229762

ISBN-13: 9780520229761

Edition: 2009

Authors: Dirksen Bauman, Heidi Rose, Jennifer Nelson, William Stokoe, W. J. T. Mitchell

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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…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/20/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

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.

Jennifer Nelson is Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Redlands (CA).

W. J. T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, the Department of Art History, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is also coeditor of the journal Critical Inquiry.



Contents of the DVD Foreword



Preface Utopian Gestures



Acknowledgments Users' Guide



Introduction




Framing Asl Literature



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




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




Deaf American Theater




The Embodied Text: "Writing" And Vision In Asl Literature



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




Textual Bodies, Bodily Texts




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




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




The Political Text: Performance And Identity In Asl Literature



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




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




Hearing Things: The Scandal of Speech in Deaf Performance



Afterword




Time Line of ASL Literature Development



ASL Video


References


Contributors


Index