James.Womack@f14.n300.z1.fidonet.org (James Womack) (04/17/91)
Index Number: 14999
[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]
What about the deaf studies concepttt and ASL as a foreign
language? These kinds of programs need to have literature recorded.
Can these programs bring in live storytellers all the time? Is there
a different or better way of bringing these stories to people?
These questions made Ben and me decide to establish four goals
for our ASL Literature Series. Ben and I will act as "editors" of the
series. We will select the stories for the rest of the series. We
will collect both old and new stories. All of the stories have to be
original ASL stories not translations from English. That's how the
ASL Literature Series began. The four goals that we established are
the following:
1) Develop an appreciation and study of the rich oral
tradition of the deaf community,
2) Apply video technology for documentation,
3) Apply a literary theory of analysis,
4) Develop a workbook and manual as a guide and review.
These are the goals for the ASL Literature Series for the
American Deaf here in the United States. The first goal I have
already explained. The second goal is to use videotaping as a way of
documenting the oral literature. The third goal is to use the
literary analysis of other oral literature to develop a way to analyze
ASL oral literature. Planning and analysis has to be done before the
series goes out to the public. The final goal is to develop a
workbook for students and a manu al for teachers to use as a guide.
The students can use the workbook questions and refer back to numbered
parts of the videotape for analysis and discussion. It would be like
a classroom discussion after reading a book. Students typically
recite portions of a story and discuss what it means. Instead we
would have a workbook written in English which would require the
students to watch the portions of the videotape to answer the
questions. The workbook would be used in conjunction with the v
ideotape. The manual is for the teachers.
This is a two year project. I should be finished with it in a
year. I have one year left before the videotapes and books will be
printed.
Now let's talk about my story. I had to decide which story to
use. The story I know the best is my own story. I have one story
called "The Deaf Factory Worker". The story Ben is working on is a
fable about an eagle. It's a wonderful stor y! It's about thirty
minutes long. My story is twenty-two minutes long. It's a long
story. I have been traveling around the country for the past seven
years telling this story. I am doing the analysis on my story and he
is doing the analysis on hiis story. Our two stories will be the
first part of the ASL Literature Series. After that other stories
will be added.
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