DEAF 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Deaf American, Carnivalesque, Deaf Culture
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Conclusion – Changes with Deaf American Literature
- If someone asks if there is really such a thing as Deaf American Literature, how would
you now answer the question?
o Deeper understanding of the different types of Deaf American Literature
o Know the difference between literature about Deaf people and literature by Deaf
people
o Reading more about…
▪ Deaf Experiences
• Oppression
• Resistance
▪ Deaf World
▪ Deaf Culture
▪ Deaf Language
o Different ways Deaf American Literature can be shown…
▪ Written
▪ Performed
▪ Technology
o Visuature
o Carnivalesque Quality
o Creative uses of the language and structure
o Breaking the rules, doing something new, something different, perhaps something
better
o Intersectionality
o Glossing and other hybrid forms
- Carnivalesque Quality
o Deaf American Literature is frequently described as Carnivalesque “with two
languages, two rhetorical traditions, and two cultures at play” (Peters, 2000, p. 11)
o Deaf American Literature consists of “a mixed, rebellious, and playful discourse”
(p. 12) and “a mishmash of everything: ASL and English, ASL vernacular, art
forms and adaptations, orality and literacy, visuality and aurality, performance
and literature, Deaf Americans and Americans” (p. 13)
- Changes with Deaf American Literature
o The textbook author argues that Deaf American Literature is most likely to
become a complex and sophisticated type of literature: “We can see promise in
where Deaf American Literature is going: more masterful and artistic use of
ASL, more use of videotapes, and more use of traditional vernacular forms in
composing artistic works. Perhaps if vernacular forms are more widely
distributed, more Deaf Americans will utilize them as a basis for composing
increasingly complex works. As its sophistication and complexity grow, Deaf
American Literature may become more like a written literature and lose its
vernacular qualities” (Peters, 2000, p. 203)
▪ Orality vs. Literary Forms
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