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Chapter 11 - Coggle Diagram
Chapter 11
Arts
- Art isn't limited to visual and tactical arts, like drawing, painting, and sculpture, but also performing arts like theater, dance, and music.
- There are so many Deaf artists the art world! And each artist is unique.
- Some artists specialize in creating artwork rooted in Deaf culture, this is called De'VIA.
- De'VIA has two different types of art, resistance, and affirmative.
- Deaf theater is a very important part of Deaf culture.
- There are many Deaf actors/actresses in television and movies. As well as many Deaf musicians and dancers.
- Deaf stage interpreters study, analyze, translate, and memorize
the lyrics in ASL.
Literature
- Literature involves poetry, short stories, and epics.
- English literature in the U.S. include both
oral and written literature.
- Most Deaf adults in the United States are bilingual in ASL and English.
- Literature is essential in creating a strong cultural identity, reflecting resistance against the majority culture, affirming Deaf culture and creating a sense of belonging for Deaf people.
- ASL literature is primarily oral literature in sign
language
- Products of ASL literature range from stories to poetry, legends, riddles, folklore, jokes and many more.ASL literature also includes fairytales, expositions, English to ASL translations, personal anecdotes, sign play, percussion songs, rap, fables, tall tales, epics, humorous stories, visual vernacular and many more.
- There are many deeply moving, profound, and insightful literary pieces in ASL that cannot be translated to English without losing some of their meanings
Media
- Media arts include print media, photography, and cinematography.
- media arts is growing very fast in popularity among Deaf people and Deaf communities.
- Deaf Lens are particular visual aesthetics that are typically associated with Deaf cinematography.
- There are many Deaf photographers, and they say that it’s an advantage being Deaf so they are focused on their craft with very little distraction.
Cultural Appropriation
- When hearing people take advantage of Deaf people, their culture, and language, this is called cultural appropriation.
- This still happens frequently to not only Deaf culture, but many cultures around the world.
- An example of cultural appropriation in Deaf culture would be if a casting director casted a hearing person into a role that was meant for a Deaf person.
- How would you feel, if someone who isn't a member of your culture, was chosen to impersonate it.