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

H-Dirksen L. Bauman is Professor in the Department of American Sign Language and Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University. Jennifer L. Nelson is Professor in the Department of English at Gallaudet University. Heidi M. Rose is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Villanova University.