Signing the body poetic : essays on American Sign Language literature

Bauman, H-Dirksen L., 1964- (Added Author). Nelson, Jennifer L., 1965- (Added Author). Rose, Heidi M., 1963- (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 0520229754
ISBN: 9780520229761
Physical Description: print
xxviii, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.)
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 ASLliterature / 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: Timeline of ASL literature development -- Appendix B: ASL video references.