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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456064403321

Autore

Sandahl Carrie

Titolo

Bodies in commotion : disability & performance / / edited by Carrie Sandahl & Philip Auslander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, Mich. : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2005

ISBN

0-472-09891-8

1-282-44450-6

9786612444500

0-472-02172-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Collana

Corporealities

Altri autori (Persone)

AuslanderPhilip

Disciplina

791.087

Soggetti

People with disabilities and the performing arts

Performing arts

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: Disability Studies in Commotion with Performance Studies / Carrie Sandahl & Philip Auslander; Part I: Taxonomies: Disability & Deaf Performances in the Process of Self-Definition; Delivering Disability, Willing Speech / Brenda Jo Brueggemann; Dares to Stares: Disabled Women Performance Artists & the Dynamics of Staring / Rosemarie Garland Thomson; Performing Deaf Identity: Toward a Continuum of Deaf Performance / Jessica Berson; Aesthetic Distance & the Fiction of Disability / Jim Ferris; Part II: Disability/Deaf Aesthetics, Audiences, & the Public Sphere

Shifting Apollo's Frame: Challenging the Body Aesthetic in Theater Dance / Owen SmithThe National Theatre of the Deaf: Artistic Freedom and Cultural Responsibility in the Use of American Sign Language / Shannon Bradford; Shifting Strengths: The Cyborg Theater of Cathy Weis / Jennifer Parker-Starbuck; Theater without a Hero: The Making of P.H.*reaks: The Hidden History of People with Disabilities / Victoria Ann Lewis; Part III: Rehabilitating the Medical Model; Performing Disability, Problematizing Cure / Johnson Cheu; Bodies, Hysteria, Pain: Staging the Invisible / Petra Kuppers



Performance as Therapy: Spalding Gray's Autopathographic Monologues / Philip AuslanderThe Facilitation of Learning-Disabled Arts: A Cultural Perspective / Giles Perring; Beyond Therapy: "Performance" Work with People Who Have Profound & Multiple Disabilities / Melissa C. Nash; Dementia and the Performance of Self / Anne Davis Basting; Part IV: Performing Disability in Daily Life; Looking Blind: A Revelation of Culture's Eye / Tanya Titchkosky; Men in Motion: Disability and the Performance of Masculinity / Lenore Manderson and Susan Peake

Disrupting a Disembodied Status Quo: Invisible Theater as Subversive Pedagogy / Maureen Connolly & Tom CraigThe Tyranny of Neutral: Disability and Actor Training / Carrie Sandahl; Part V: Reading Disability in Dramatic Literature; Unfixing Disability in Lord Byron's The Deformed Transformed / Sharon L. Snyder; On Medea, Bad Mother of the Greek Drama (Disability, Character, Genopolitics) / Marcy J. Epstein; Disability's Invisibility in Joan Schenkar's Signs of Life and Heather McDonald's An Almost Holy Picture / Stacy Wolf

Reconsidering Identity Politics, Essentialism, and Dismodernism: An Afterword / Peggy PhelanContributors; Index