The Hand of The Silent Worker: Reading an ASL imageword

The essay argues that the attempt to represent ASL in two dimensions is not a new, postmodern phenomenon, but is instead one that is embedded in deaf history at least as far back as the nineteenth century.  The essay then provides a close, historically contextual reading of a particular illustration...

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Published inDisability studies quarterly Vol. 36; no. 2
Main Author Kincheloe, Pamela J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published The Ohio State University Libraries 26.05.2016
Subjects
Deaf Culture
Deaf History
Little Paper Family
Nineteenth Century American Periodicals
The Silent Worker
Visual Culture
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Summary:The essay argues that the attempt to represent ASL in two dimensions is not a new, postmodern phenomenon, but is instead one that is embedded in deaf history at least as far back as the nineteenth century.  The essay then provides a close, historically contextual reading of a particular illustration from the October 1928 issue of The Silent Worker, showing evidence of a multivocal imageword; a successful two dimensional representation of ASL, depicted in a clash with the heteroglossic English text with which it appears.
ISSN:1041-5718
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DOI:10.18061/dsq.v36i2.4499