Summary Of Heidi M. Rose's American Sign Language

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Author Heidi M. Rose focuses and correlates the the body with American sign language. Rose states that if she were to create a poem in American Sign Language, the inner “voice” emerges, not in words on paper, but in signs through my body; the body becomes the text (1). Rose believes that American sign language is more than just a form of language and communication, it is also a performance. It is something that embodies the author’s physical presence. It is a form of performance that is a literature to place the author in the spotlight and it embraces their identity as they are performing American Sign Language. “ASL, a multimedia form that may include any combination of, for example, poetry, monologue, video, dance, music, and painting, performance

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