Disrespected Literature and Sign Language

Autori

  • Rachel Sutton-Spence ederal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/12358

Parole chiave:

sign language; sign language literature; deaf literature; disrespected literature; embodied poetry

Abstract

The study of hitherto “disrespected literature” makes us look at all language in a new way, revealing the potentialand limitationsof language, creativity and humanity. I argue that sign language literature, or , as it is called in one sign language, as an example of disrespected literature, can reveal new ways of thinking about literature, literary analysis and language, as well as highlighting the relationship between language art and the body of the language artist. I discuss the paradox that academic acceptance ofand respect forthe new literary cultural norms may compromise those norms, as canons are created, conveying institutional status and risking the cultural norms of the community that created it. Disrespected literature brings into focus the relationship between language, the body and identity.
The essential corporal nature of sign language can powerfully express Embodied Political Resistance to prevailing disrespect. Thus, when we respect the sign language literature of a deaf culture, we respect the language, the body and the person.

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Biografia autore

Rachel Sutton-Spence, ederal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Rachel Sutton-Spence has taught the linguistics and literature of Brazilian sign
Language at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil since 2013. She was
previously a Reader in Deaf Studies at the University of Bristol, England. She has coauthored
with Michiko Kaneko Introducing Sign Language Literature: Creativity and
Folklore, Palgrave Press, 2016.

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Pubblicato

2019-11-12

Come citare

Sutton-Spence, Rachel. 2019. «Disrespected Literature and Sign Language». Altre Modernità, n. 22 (novembre):13-22. https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/12358.