Signing the body poetic
Subtitle: essays on American Sign Language literature
By: 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
Contributors: Bauman, H-Dirksen L., 1964-; Nelson, Jennifer L., 1965-; Rose, Heidi M., 1963-
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780520229754; 9780520229761
Subjects: American Sign Language literature; Deaf authors; Deaf, Theater for the; Visual literature -- History and criticism
Description: 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.
Notes: "Includes DVD."

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / H.-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson, Heidi M. Rose; title: Face-to-face tradition in the American deaf community : dynamics of the teller, the tale, and the audience / Ben Bahan; title: The camera as printing press : how film has influenced ASL literature / Christopher B. Krentz; title: Deaf American theater / Cynthia Peters; title: Getting out of line : toward a visual and cinematic poetics of ASL / H.-Dirksen L. Bauman; title: Textual bodies, bodily texts / Jennifer L. Nelson; title: The poet in the poem in the performance : the relation of body, self, and text in ASL literature / Heidi M. Rose; title: ASL literature comes of age : creative "writing" in the classroom / Liz Wolter; title: "If there are Greek epics, there should be deaf epics" : how protest became poetry / Kristen C. Harmon; title: Visual screaming : Willy Conley's deaf theater and Charlie Chaplin's silent cinema / Carol L. Robinson; title: Hearing things : the scandal of speech in deaf performance / Michael Davidson; title: Afterword / Carol A. Padden; title: Appendix A: Time line of ASL literature development; title: Appendix B: ASL video references