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Signing the body poetic essays on American Sign Language literature

Title
Signing the body poetic [electronic resource] : 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.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Bauman, H-Dirksen L., 1964-
  • Nelson, Jennifer L., 1965-
  • Rose, Heidi M., 1963-
Description
1 online resource (xxviii, 264 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
Signing the body poetic (Online)
Subject
  • American Sign Language literature
  • Deaf authors
  • Deaf, Theater for the
  • Visual literature > History and criticism
Note
  • "Includes DVD."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2006016236
OCLC
ssj0000245882
Title
Signing the body poetic [electronic resource] : 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.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Bauman, H-Dirksen L., 1964-
Nelson, Jennifer L., 1965-
Rose, Heidi M., 1963-
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