Signing the body poetic : essays on American Sign Language literature /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bauman, H-Dirksen L., 1964-, Nelson, Jennifer L., 1965-, Rose, Heidi M., 1963-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
Subjects:	American Sign Language literature. Deaf authors. Deaf, Theater for the. Visual literature > History and criticism.

Table of 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.