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Signing the body poetic: essays on American Sign Language literature

H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson and Heidi M. Rose
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  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS OF THE DVD (page xi)
  • FOREWORD (William C. Stokoe, page xiii)
  • PREFACE: UTOPIAN GESTURES (W. J. T. Mitchell, page xv)
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xxv)
  • USERS' GUIDE (page xxvii)
  • 1 / Introduction (H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson, Heidi M. Rose, page 1)
  • PART ONE - FRAMING ASL LITERATURE
    • 2 / Face-to-Face Tradition in the American Deaf Community: Dynamics of the Teller, the Tale, and the Audience (Ben Bahan, page 21)
    • 3 / The Camera as Printing Press: How Film Has Influenced ASL Literature (Christopher B. Krentz, page 51)
    • 4 / Deaf American Theater (Cynthia Peters, page 71)
  • PART TWO - THE EMBODIED TEXT: "WRITING" AND VISION IN ASL LITERATURE
    • 5 / Getting out of Line: Toward a Visual and Cinematic Poetics of ASL (H-Dirksen L. Bauman, page 95)
    • 6 / Textual Bodies, Bodily Texts (Jennifer L. Nelson, page 118)
    • 7 / The Poet in the Poem in the Performance: The Relation of Body, Self, and Text in ASL Literature (Heidi M. Rose, page 130)
    • 8 / ASL Literature Comes of Ages: Creative "Writing" in the Classroom (Liz Wolter, page 147)
  • PART THREE - THE POLITICAL TEXT: PERFORMANCE AND IDENTITY IN ASL LITERATURE
    • 9 / "If there are Greek epics, there should be Deaf epics": How Protest Became Poetry (Kristen C. Harmon, page 169)
    • 10 / Visual Screaming: Willy Conley's Deaf Theater and Charlie Chaplin's Silent Cinema (Carol L. Robinson, page 195)
    • 11 / Hearing Things: The Scandal of Speech in Deaf Performance (Michael Davidson, page 216)
  • AFTERWORD (Carol A. Padden, page 235)
  • APPENDIX A: TIME LINE OF ASL LITERATURE DEVELOPMENT (page 241)
  • APPENDIX B: ASL VIDEO REFERENCES (page 253)
  • CONTRIBUTORS (page 255)
  • INDEX (page 257)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
SLS 8.4 (2008): 412-417 http://www.jstor.org/stable/26190549.
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Published: c2006
Publisher: University of California Press
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  • 9780520229761 (paper)
  • 9780520935914 (ebook)
  • 9780520229754 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Linguistics
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