TY - BOOK AU - Bauman,H-Dirksen L. AU - Nelson,Jennifer L. AU - Rose,Heidi M. TI - Signing the body poetic: essays on American Sign Language literature SN - 0520229754 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - HV2353 .S53 2006 U1 - 890 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - American Sign Language literature KW - Deaf authors KW - Deaf, Theater for the KW - Visual literature KW - History and criticism N1 - "Includes DVD."; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0662/2006016236-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0662/2006016236-t.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0735/2006016236-b.html ER -