An edition of Signing the body poetic (2006)

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An edition of Signing the body poetic (2006)

Signing the body poetic

essays on American Sign Language literature

The accompanying DVD ... "showcases the poems and narratives under discussion in their original form, providing access to them for hearing non-signers for the first time.--co-publisher's website. Listing of all video clips on the DVD on p. xi-xii.

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English
Pages
264

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Cover of: Signing the Body Poetic
Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature
December 20, 2006, University of California Press
Hardcover in English - 1 edition
Cover of: Signing the Body Poetic
Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature
2006, University of California Press
in English
Cover of: Signing the body poetic
Signing the body poetic: essays on American Sign Language literature
2006, University of California Press
in English

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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

Edition Notes

"Includes DVD."

Includes bibliographical references and index

Published in
Berkeley

Classifications

Library of Congress
HV2353 .S53 2006, 2006016236

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxviii, 264 p. :
Number of pages
264

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL17208128M
ISBN 10
0520229754, 0520229762
ISBN 13
9780520229754, 9780520229761
LCCN
2006016236
OCLC/WorldCat
69331526
LibraryThing
2414370
Goodreads
5962276
657828

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Work ID
OL18208802W

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