Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature Book

Contents of the DVD Foreword—William C. Stokoe Preface: Utopian Gestures—W.J.T. Mitchell Acknowledgments Users' Guide

1.
Introduction H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson, Heidi M. Rose

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
3. The Camera as Printing Press: How Film Has
Influenced ASL Literature—Christopher B. Krentz
4. Deaf American Theater—Cynthia Peters

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
6. Textual Bodies, Bodily Texts—Jennifer L. Nelson
7. The Poet in the Poem in the Performance: The Relation of Body, Self, and Text in ASL Literature—Heidi M. Rose
8. ASL Literature Comes of Age: Creative "Writing" in the Classroom—Liz Wolter

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
10. Visual Screaming: Willy Conley's Deaf Theater and Charlie Chaplin's Silent Cinema—Carol L. Robinson
11. 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 Contributors
Index