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* This anthology has been curated by a seasoned playwright,
academic, director and actor who has lived experience of being
deaf. * Would be recommended reading in deaf studies and deaf
culture courses across the world. * This book is the first
anthology of its kind.
* This anthology has been curated by a seasoned playwright,
academic, director and actor who has lived experience of being
deaf. * Would be recommended reading in deaf studies and deaf
culture courses across the world. * This book is the first
anthology of its kind.
Visual-Gestural Communication is a truly unique volume in
non-language communication devoted to the study of universal
gestures, facial expressions, body language, and pantomime. Readers
develop the skill and confidence to interact -- sans shared
language -- with individuals, such as someone who is deaf or hard
of hearing, or who speaks a foreign language. The text and
accompanying online resources feature a wealth of icebreakers,
sequenced yet modular activities and assignments, as well as
resources, student exercises, and teacher-guided tasks that explore
aspects and amalgamations of nonverbal communication, theatre, and
sign language. It is a tremendous resource for students of
visual-gestural communication, sign language interpretation,
American Sign Language (and other foreign sign languages),
nonverbal communication, theatre, and performance studies, as well
as community educators in deaf awareness and advocacy. In addition
to the text's vital use in the theatrical arena, it is also
applicable to teachers who wish to help their students maximize the
use of their facial expressions, gestures, and body language as a
prerequisite to learning ASL.
Visual-Gestural Communication is a truly unique volume in
non-language communication devoted to the study of universal
gestures, facial expressions, body language, and pantomime. Readers
develop the skill and confidence to interact -- sans shared
language -- with individuals, such as someone who is deaf or hard
of hearing, or who speaks a foreign language. The text and
accompanying online resources feature a wealth of icebreakers,
sequenced yet modular activities and assignments, as well as
resources, student exercises, and teacher-guided tasks that explore
aspects and amalgamations of nonverbal communication, theatre, and
sign language. It is a tremendous resource for students of
visual-gestural communication, sign language interpretation,
American Sign Language (and other foreign sign languages),
nonverbal communication, theatre, and performance studies, as well
as community educators in deaf awareness and advocacy. In addition
to the text's vital use in the theatrical arena, it is also
applicable to teachers who wish to help their students maximize the
use of their facial expressions, gestures, and body language as a
prerequisite to learning ASL.
Told through a series of quirky, irreverent short stories and
letters home during the early 1980s, The Deaf Heart chronicles a
year in the life of Dempsey "Max" McCall, a Deaf biomedical
photography resident at a teaching hospital on the island of
Galveston, Texas. Max strives to become certified as a Registered
Biological Photographer while straddling the deaf and hearing
worlds. He befriends Reynaldo, an impoverished Deaf Mexican, and
they go on a number of unusual escapades around the island. At the
hospital, Max has to contend with hearing doctors, nurses,
scientists, and teachers. While struggling through the rigors of
his residency and running into bad luck in meeting women, Max
discovers an ally in his hearing housemate Zag, a fellow resident
who is also vying for certification. Toward the end of his
residency, Max meets Maddy, a Deaf woman who helps bring balance to
his life. Author Willy Conley's stories, some humorous, some
poignant, reveal Max's struggles and triumphs as he attempts to
succeed in the hearing world while at the same time navigating the
multicultural and linguistic diversity within the Deaf world.
After spending three years in The National Theatre of the Deaf
performing plays by hearing authors featuring hearing characters,
Willy Conley realized that he wanted to write plays with deaf,
hard-of- hearing, and hearing characters created from the Deaf
perspective. "Vignettes of the Deaf Character and Other Plays
"presents the result of his desire in twelve masterful plays.
"I write for the eye, always searching for live, mobile,
provocative images that would fill and illuminate the entire stage
space with the complexities, the pathos, and the humor involved
when deaf and hearing cultures merge or collide," writes Conley in
his introduction. His plays depict a wide range of Deaf characters,
including two brothers locked in a tragic rivalry familiar to
families of all backgrounds; the broadly comedic Deaf Guide and
hearing Techie interspersing laughs with cultural lessons in their
Museum of Signs for People with Communication Disorders; Everyone
searching for her Good Deeds as she faces imminent Death in an
updating of the classic morality play, plus many others. These
works explore a broad palette of circumstances with and without
hearing characters, allowing Deaf characters to interact minus the
direct influence that the dominant culture might exert." Vignettes
of the Deaf Character and Other Plays" presents the drama and
passion of a master playwright who, through his perceptions,
reveals facets of the Deaf character in all of us.
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