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en-wikipedia-org-876		American Sign Language literature - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	9666	984	67	Literary genres initially developed in residential Deaf institutes, such as American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut,[1] which is where American Sign Language developed as a language in the early 19th century.[2] There are many genres of ASL literature, such as narratives of personal experience, poetry, cinematographic stories, folktales, translated works, original fiction and stories with handshape constraints.[1] Authors of ASL literature use their body as the text of their work, which is visually read and comprehended by their audience viewers.[3] In the early development of ASL literary genres, the works were generally not analyzed as written texts are, but the increased dissemination of ASL literature on video has led to greater analysis of these genres.[4] Ben Bahan defines folktales in American Sign Language literature as stories that have long existed in the community without a known origin.[19] Folklore help create a common literary foundation that unite Deaf individuals.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-876.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-876.txt