The Hand of The Silent Worker: Reading an ASL imageword
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https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v36i2.4499Keywords:
Little Paper Family, The Silent Worker, Nineteenth Century American Periodicals, Visual Culture, Deaf History, Deaf CultureAbstract
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.Downloads
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Copyright (c) 2016 Pamela J. Kincheloe