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- Title
A Feast for the Eyes: ASL Literacy and ASL Literature.
- Authors
Christie, Karen; Wilkins, Dorothy M.
- Abstract
All languages and cultures have literatures through which they pass down stories and transmit the experience and values of a group of people. In the late 1960s, linguistic analysis of American Sign Language (ASL) documented that the language of Deaf Americans was bona fide. By the 1980s, cultural descriptions of the DEAF-WORLD1 began to appear in publications. In more recent times, the literature of ASL has been recognized and celebrated. Perhaps one of the more formal celebrations of ASL literature has been the 1991 and 1996 National American Sign Language Literature Conferences at Rochester, New York.
- Subjects
AMERICAN Sign Language; AMERICAN English language; ENGLISH literature; ENGLISH children's literature; DEAF children
- Publication
Journal of Deaf Studies & Deaf Education, 1997, Vol 2, Issue 1, p57
- ISSN
1081-4159
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/oxfordjournals.deafed.a014310