Table of contents for Signing the body poetic : essays on American Sign Language literature / 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.


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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

Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
American Sign Language literature.
Deaf authors.
Deaf, Theater for the.
Visual literature -- History and criticism.