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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966833703321

Autore

Kuppers Petra

Titolo

Disability Culture and Community Performance : Find a Strange and Twisted Shape / / by P. Kuppers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011

ISBN

9786613210203

9781283210201

1283210207

9780230313781

0230313787

9780230316584

0230316581

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Disciplina

791.087

Soggetti

Culture

Performing arts

Theater

Social policy

Theater - History

Arts

Sociology of Culture

Theatre and Performance Arts

Social Policy

Theatre History

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

pt. 1. Making a home -- pt. 2. Rhizomes/connections -- pt. 3. Memory touch -- pt. 4. Myth-making.

Sommario/riassunto

Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior



practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture.