Session Details

Wednesday, 29 December

489. Visual Literature: Genre, Poetics, and Translation in American Sign Language Performance

1:45–3:00 p.m., 413, Philadelphia Marriott

A workshop arranged in conjunction with the forum American Sign Language: Redefining Language, Literacy, and Literature (188)

Presiding: Christopher Becker Krentz, Univ. of Virginia

1. “Face-to-Face Literature: Indigenous Forms of American Sign Language Performance,” Benjamin Bahan, Gallaudet Univ.

2. “Deaf Theory: New Perspectives on Spatial Form in Literature,” H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Gallaudet Univ.

3. “Shakespeare’s Corpus: Text, Body, and Theory of American Sign Language Translation,” Peter Novak, Univ. of San Francisco

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