"If there are Greek epics, there should be deaf epics": How protest became poetry

Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 169-194

  Harmon, Kristen C ^a  

^a GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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