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Deaf American literature : from carnival to the canon /
"The moment when a society must contend with a powerful language other than its own is a decisive point in its evolution. This moment is occurring now in American society." Cynthia Peters explains precisely how American Sign Language (ASL) literature achieved this moment by tracing its pas...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Gallaudet University Press,
2000.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Is there really such as thing as Deaf American literature?
- Carnival: orature and Deaf American literature
- Deaf carnivals as centers of culture
- The oral tradition: Deaf American storytellers as tricksters
- Literary night: the restorative power of comedic and grotesque literature
- Deaf American theater
- Islay: the Deaf American novel
- Poetry
- From orature to literature: the new permanence of ASL literature
- Conclusion.