Introducing Sign Language Literature: Folklore and Creativity is the first textbook dedicated to analyzing and appreciating sign language storytelling, poetry and humour. The authors assume no prior knowledge of sign language or literary studies, introducing readers to a world of visual language creativity in deaf communities.
Introducing Sign Language Literature: Folklore and Creativity
- Explains in straightforward terms the unique features of this embodied language art form
- Draws on an online anthology of over 150 sign language stories, poems and jokes
- Suggests ways of analysing and appreciating the rich artistic heritage of deaf communities
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Michiko Kaneko is a Lecturer and Head of the Department of South African Sign Language in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.; Rachel Sutton-Spence is a lecturer in Sign Language Studies at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Introducing Sign Language Literature: Folklore and Creativity is the first textbook dedicated to analyzing and appreciating sign language storytelling, poetry and humour. The authors assume no prior knowledge of sign language or literary studies, introducing readers to a world of visual language creativity in deaf communities.
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