The Hand of The Silent Worker: Reading an ASL imageword

Authors

  • Pamela J. Kincheloe Rochester Institute of Technology National Technical Institute for the Deaf

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v36i2.4499

Keywords:

Little Paper Family, The Silent Worker, Nineteenth Century American Periodicals, Visual Culture, Deaf History, Deaf Culture

Abstract

The essay argues that the attempt to represent ASL in two dimensions is not a new, postmodern phenomenon, but is instead one that is embedded in deaf history at least as far back as the nineteenth century.  The essay then provides a close, historically contextual reading of a particular illustration from the October 1928 issue of The Silent Worker, showing evidence of a multivocal imageword; a successful two dimensional representation of ASL, depicted in a clash with the heteroglossic English text with which it appears.

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Published

2016-05-26

How to Cite

Kincheloe, P. J. (2016). The Hand of The Silent Worker: Reading an ASL imageword. Disability Studies Quarterly, 36(2). https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v36i2.4499

Issue

Vol. 36 No. 2 (2016): Spring 2016

Section

Feeling

License

Copyright (c) 2016 Pamela J. Kincheloe