Breadcrumb Trail
Session D: Digital Shakespeare: "Twelfth Night" in American Sign Language
- Date and Time
- Tuesday, April 22, 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
- Presenters
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- Peter Novak (Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; University of San Francisco)
- Description
American Sign Language (ASL) has often been called "kinetic sculpture," fusing movement and gesture to articulate language in space. With artists and scholars increasingly turning their attention to the representation and translation of gestures, this project joins two distinctly different cultures: the hearing world, with Shakespeare as one of its greatest poets, and the visual/gesture language of the Deaf.
How do you translate the greatest English poet into the visual/manual language of ASL? And why do it to begin with? This presentation features both theoretical and practical issues of translating Shakespeare into American Sign Language.