Signs and voices : deaf culture, identity, language, and arts / Kristin A. Lindgren, Doreen DeLuca, and Donna Jo Napoli, editors.

Title
  1. Signs and voices : deaf culture, identity, language, and arts / Kristin A. Lindgren, Doreen DeLuca, and Donna Jo Napoli, editors.
Published by
  1. Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, 2008.

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Additional authors
  1. Lindgren, Kristin A.
  2. DeLuca, Doreen
  3. Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948-
Description
  1. xxii, 246 p. : ill.; 26 cm. +
Summary
  1. Cochlear implants, mainstreaming, genetic engineering, and other ethical dilemmas confronting deaf people mandated a new, wide-ranging examination of these issues. This collection addresses all of the factors now changing the cultural landscape for deaf people. "Signs and Voices" is divided into three sections -- Culture and Identity, Language and Literacy, and American Sign Language in the Arts -- each of which focuses on a particular set of theoretical and practical concerns. The book also includes a DVD that presents many of the performances from the Arts section. Taken together, these essays and DVD point to new directions in a broad range of fields, including cognitive science, deaf studies, disability studies, education, linguistics, literary criticism, philosophy, and psychology. This extraordinary showcase of cross-disciplinary study will prove invaluable to everyone interested in the current state of the Deaf community. -- From publisher's description.
Uniform title
  1. Project Muse UPCC books
Alternative title
  1. Signs & voices
Subject
  1. Deaf > United States > Social conditions
  2. Deaf > Means of communication > United States
  3. American Sign Language
  4. Deaf > Psychology
  5. Identity (Psychology)
  6. Deaf culture > United States
  7. Deafness > Psychological aspects
  8. Deafness
Genre/Form
  1. DVD-Video discs.
Contents
  1. Introduction / Kristin A. Lindgren, Doreen DeLuca, and Donna Jo Napoli -- Culture and identity -- Scientific explanation and other performance acts in the reorganization of DEAF / Tom Humphries -- Who am I? Deaf identity issues / Irene W. Leigh -- Think-between: a deaf studies commonplace book / Brenda Jo Brueggemann -- "I thought there would be more Helen Keller": History through deaf eyes and narratives of representation / Kristen Harmon -- Bioethics and the deaf community / Teresa Blankmeyer Burke -- Language and literacy -- Cognitive and neural representations of language: insights from sign languages of the deaf / Heather P. Knapp and David P. Corina -- Children creating core properties of language: evidence from an emerging sign language in Nicaragua / Ann Senghas, Sotaro Kita, and Aslı Özyürek -- Well, "what" is it? Discovery of a new particle in ASL / Carol Neidle and Robert G. Lee -- Success with deaf children: how to prevent educational failure / Ronnie B. Wilbur -- English and ASL: classroom activities to shed some light on the use of two languages / Shannon Allen -- A bilingual approach to reading / Doreen DeLuca and Donna Jo Napoli -- American Sign Language in the arts -- Body/text: sign language poetics and spatial form in literature / H-Dirksen L. Bauman -- Tree tangled in tree: re-siting poetry through ASL / Michael Davidson -- Nobilior est vulgaris: Dante's hypothesis and sign language poetry / David M. Perlmutter -- Flying words: a conversation between Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner -- Visual Shakespeare: Twelfth Night and the value of ASL translation / Peter Novak -- ASL in performance: a conversation with Adrian Blue.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain