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The History of Deaf Literature
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The History of Deaf Literature
1967
The Lost Literature
2007
1910-1920
National Theater of the Deaf founded
Gestures appear in Egypt
- "But thou art not one that is deaf, that cannot hear, and one speaketh unto him with the hand" (GARDINER AH)
- deaf people were thought to be specially selected by the Gods and deaf education bloomed
- Video Invented!
- NAD collects deaf literature samples including;
- poems
- stories
- lectures
- songs
- These can all be found in "Signing the Body Poetic"
- Ella Mae Lentz founds "ASL Presents"
- focus on how to present, perform and teach Deaf literature to children.
- Founded by David Hays
- presented a new form of Deaf expression
- at first, they only performed translated pieces such as Woyzeck, Gilgamesh, The Three Musketeers and Volpone.
- However.....
Ancient Greece
- sign language is first documented here by Socrates
- "if we had neither voice nor tongue, and yet wished to manifest things to one another, should we not, like those which are at present mute, endeavor to signify our meaning by the hands, head, and other parts of the body?" -Socrates (Wright, David)
1940
2005
1800
2010
In the BC
Early 1700's
1971
1950-1960
1817
ASD founded in Hartford by Thomas H. Gallaudet and Laurent Clark.
- NTD performs its first Deaf written play called "My Third Eye"
- Deaf Clubs are founded
- provide a safe-haven for Deaf people where they can go to socialize
- ABC stories invented here
- This sparked a rapid growth and they went on to perform in all fifty states, seven continents, went on one hundred national tours, thirty-one international tours
References
- GARDINER AH (1911, reprint 1964) Egyptian Hieratic Texts, transcribed, translated and annotated. Series I: Literary Texts of the New Kingdom. Hildesheim: Georg Olms.
- Eirksson, Per (1993). The History of Deaf People. Orebro Sweden: SHI Laromedel, the Learning Materials Division of the National Swedish Agency for Special Education. p. 12.
- Wright, David (1969). Deafness, a Personal Account. London: Allen Lane the Penguin Press. p. 156.
- "ASD Archives/History Room." American School for the Deaf: History. ASD, n.d. Web. 14 Nov. 2014.
- National Theatre of the Deaf. National Theatre of the Deaf - Theaters - Signing, deaf culture, Actors. Atlas Hosting. Retrieved 10, Mar. 2005: < http://www.ntd.org/>.
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