附註:Based on the author's thesis, George Washington University, 1996.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Is there really such as thing as Deaf American literature? -- Carnival: orature and Deaf American literature -- Deaf carnivals as centers of culture -- The oral tradition: Deaf American storytellers as tricksters -- Literary night: the restorative power of comedic and grotesque literature -- Deaf American theater -- Islay: the Deaf American novel -- Poetry -- From orature to literature: the new permanence of ASL literature -- Conclusion.
