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Chapter Seven:
Emergence of Colorful Communication
Chelsee Patterson
March 5th, 2021
Emergence
2 forms of expression:
Written / Oral
Deaf folklore helps develop pride, identity, culture
Created legends, Deaf jokes, riddles, signlore, poetry, personal eexpeeriencee narratives, rhythmic performances
Storytelling
Started with mimicking idiosyncratic mannerisms of hearing teachers/dorm staff
Elaborated retelling of horror, western, romantic, war movies
Experience Stories
Deaf people succeeding or outsmarting hearing people
Present a perspective, wish, idea unique to Deaf people
Fictional Original
Benjamin Franklin & deaf printer
Creative Stories
Particular Rule:
Alphabetical order, numerical order, particular hand shapes
Storyteller determines who will win
Jokes, Humor & Laughs
Laugh at world or at own world
4 categories: Visual, Can't hear, Linguistic, Response to Oppression
Many pertain to inability to hear
Lexically based
Fight back through humor
"Zap" stories / Deaf people getting even
"Can you read my lips?"
"Can you read my signs?"
Deaf group inn restaurant signs into phone
ASL, Deaf Culture, HOH, lipreading jokes
Traditional jokes:
Lumberjack and the "Stubborn" Tree
Birds on a Telephone Line
Anthology
Roy Holcomb contribution to deaf humor through prose/art
2 Deaf sons (Roy Holcomb) Samuel and Thomas
Deaf Culture Our Way
Hazards of Deafness
Silence is Golden, Sometimes
For Hearing People Only
Involve mime, gesture, cinematic effects, spontaneous sign-play
Riddles
Interpreter jokes
Cartoons
5 Broad themes:
Communication, Lipreading,
ASL, Interpreter, Technology
Poetry
Earliest known collection 500 poems
Silent Muse Anthology
Patrick Graybill "In English poetry we play with words
In ASL poetry we play with signs"
Rhymes created by sign direction, quality, movement,
hand shape, location and orientation
Poetry in motion
Patrick Graybill, Debbie Rennie, Clayton Valli
Art
De'VIA Manifesto = Deaf View/Image Art
Representing their symbolism
Exaggerated facial expressions
Matt Daigle
- graphic designer, cartoons/humor,
when deaf and non-deaf people meet, breast-feeding symbol contest
Maureen Klusza
- Comic strip "The Deaf Side"
Betty Miller
- Mother of De'VIA movement, first artist to expose deep-seated resentment of deaf, cofound Spectrum, Focus on Deaf Artists
Ruth Peterson
- Became fully deaf in her 50's, freelance art,
DeeCeeEyes
Heriberto Quinones
(
Herbie
) - "The Cartoon Factory, drawn since 8 yo
Ann Silver
- Education 90% guesswork / 10% art, Deaf Art Movement in DC, Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art NY, featured in Stockholm / Tokyo
Performing Arts
Took place in residential schools
Create own scripts
Perform at Deaf clubs
1882 Gallaudet offers all male Saturday Night Club
1950's Gallaudet launched 1st drama classes
Gilbert Eastman
- first professor and director of dramatics
National Theater of the Deaf )NTD -
play using Deaf actors w/ hearing actors/readers
1967 NTD first performance, audience of 6
Moscow Theater of Mimicry and Gesture
Ed Waterstreet
- founder / director of DWT (Deaf West Theater)
CJ Jones
- Hands Across Communication; events for national deaf artists
John Maucere
- Deafywood & SuperDeafy
Marlee Matlin
The Dream
deaf characters portraying hearing characters
Ernest Marshall
- earliest deaf producer
Photographers
Schools sponsored photo clubs
Idyllic life, glass plate negatives
(Allen Sisters)
Frances & Mary Allen,
photos taken 1885-1920,
teachers --> photographers,
died w/i 4 days of each other,
purchase photographs at
home front
,
The Allen Sisters: Pictorial Photographers
Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre:
Photographs of a River Life