DEAF 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Exaggeration, Deaf American
Wednesday, August 30, 2017 Notes
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- Introductions
o Your name
o Your hometown (where you are from)
o Your major concentration and goals
o Something interesting or random about yourself
- What is literature?
o Analysis, easy access, language, pictures, films, culture, identity, books, poems,
stories, history, perspectives, human condition, oppression, deaf experiences, deaf
community, anything about emotions, reading, writing, changes with how it is
expressed, cultural influence, words used to express, physical forms, forms of
expression and communication, record or documentation, etc.
o Latin, litera, littera = alphabetic signs or letters
o Latin literatura, litteratura = writings formed with letters
o Writing has more value than the oral part
o Traditional Definition of Literature
▪ Literature has traditionally “been defines as writings in prose or verse, as a
body of written works, and as printed matter. If we look at the ASL
component of Deaf American Literature and its traditional forms,
however, we must either stop calling it literature or reconsider our
definition” (Peters, 2000) p. 17).
o Modern Definition of Literature
▪ In a more modern sense, literature “’means not only what is written but
what is voiced, what is expressed, what is invented, in whatever form’ – in
which case maps, sermons, comic strips, cartoons, speeches, photographs,
movies, war memorials, and music all huddle beneath the literary
umbrella” (Krystal, 20114, p. 89).
- Deaf American Literature
o Consists of literary works and productions created by Deaf people, including
those who used ASL, those who write in English, and those who consciously or
unconsciously mix the vernacular tradition in ASL with the literacy tradition in
English (Peters, 2000, p. 3).
o Deaf Literature vs. ASL Literature
▪ Deaf Lit
• Deaf people, deaf experience
• Written literature
• English literary works and hybrid works in written format
▪ ASL Lit
• Signed literature
• ASL literary works and hybrid works in signed format
- Literature about Deaf People
o Hearing people thought of this
o Composed of literary works and productions developed by hearing people that are
somehow related to the Deaf community
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