Signing the body poetic essays on American Sign Language literature / H.-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson, Heidi M. Rose, editors ; with a foreword by William C. Stokoe and a preface by W.J.T. Mitchell.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, |
| Description | xxviii, 264 p. : ill. ; 23 cm + 1 videodisc (DVD : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Bauman, H-Dirksen L., 1964- |
| Other author/creator | Nelson, Jennifer L., 1965- |
| Other author/creator | Rose, Heidi M., 1963- |
| Other author/creator | American Council of Learned Societies. |
| Contents | 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 ASL literature / 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: Time line of ASL literature development -- Appendix B: ASL video references. |
| General note | "Includes DVD." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2006016236 |
| ISBN | 0520229754 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780520229754 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0520229762 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780520229761 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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