Sign language studies · 1986 · 21 citations · 2 references
HumanitiesLiteratureLiterary TheoryPhilosophy Of LanguagePoetryDeaf LiteratureDeaf PerformanceDeaf StudiesDeaf Literature CriticismDeaf Narrative FormDeaf Poetics
Since the meeting of poets Allen Ginsberg and Robert Panara at the National Institute for the Deaf in 1984 a new Deaf poetics has emerged. The centrality of the image as the essence of poetry is the focus both of ASL poems and of the international poetry community. A series of performances by ASL poets and other activities linking poets have provided new data to support the universal, i.e. poetic, phase through which language operates.
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