"This is a startlingly original collection, challenging readers to think well beyond normative contours of the literary text toward a living art of the embodied sign. A significant contribution to literary, performance, and Deaf culture studies, "Signing the Body Poetic" will make us all see differently."--Della Pollock, editor of "Remembering: Oral History Performance" ""Signing the Body Poetic" is both a book and an event--a long-anticipated work that questions and recasts some of our most embedded definitions of poetry and other language arts. The work of several generations of signing...
"This is a startlingly original collection, challenging readers to think well beyond normative contours of the literary text toward a living art of th...
This new anthology showcases the work of Deaf writers during a critical formative period in their history. From 1830 to 1930, these writers conveyed their impressions in autobiographies, travel narratives, romances, non-fiction short stories, editorials, descriptive pieces, and other forms of prose. The quick, often evocative snapshots and observations featured here, many explicitly addressing deafness and sign language, reflect their urgency to record Deaf American life at this pivotal time. Using sensory details, dialogue, characterization, narrative movement, and creative prose, these...
This new anthology showcases the work of Deaf writers during a critical formative period in their history. From 1830 to 1930, these writers conveye...
![Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature [With DVD] Bauman, Dirksen 9780520229761 University of California Press](/9780520229761_signing_the_body_poetic_essays_on_american_sign_language_literature_with_dvd.jpg "Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature [With DVD]")
