35.60, Books: Creative Sign Language: Sutton-Spence and de Araújo Machado (2023)

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Date: 30-Nov-2023
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Creative Sign Language: Sutton-Spence and de Araújo Machado (2023)


Title: Creative Sign Language
Series Title: Elements in Sign Languages
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://cambridge.org/9781009344876

author: Rachel Sutton-Spence
author: Fernanda de Araújo Machado
Abstract:

This Element describes creative sign language in deaf literature. To
showcase the exciting developments in Latin American deaf literature,
the authors focus upon creative Libras as it is used by the Brazilian
deaf community, while emphasising aspects of Libras literature that
can be seen in similar productions and performances in sign language
literatures around the world. Throughout the Element, the authors
refer to examples of Libras poems and stories to give readers a
practical experience of appreciating works of creative sign language.
They describe Libras literature within its historical and social
contexts and consider questions of performance, filming and editing
and the potential for written Libras literature. Drawing on
anthologies of Libras poems, jokes and stories, they use close-reading
techniques to show how the literary effects are created, while
reminding the reader that sign language literature cannot be separated
from the deaf community.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English (eng)



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