Disability and contemporary performance : bodies on edge

Disability and contemporary performance bodies on edge

Disability and Contemporary Performance presents a remarkable challenge to existing assumptions about disability and artistic practice. In particular, it explores where cultural knowledge about disability leaves off, and the lived experience of difference begins. Petra Kuppers, herself an award-winn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kuppers, Petra (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge 2003, c2004.
Materias:
Sociology of disability.
People with disabilities and the performing arts.
Artists with disabilities.
Arts and society.
Arts > Political aspects.
Social problems in art.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628111706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Figure acknowledgements; Performance and disability: An introduction; Chapter 1 Practices of reading difference; Chapter 2 Freaks, stages, and medical theaters; Chapter 3 Deconstructing images: Performing disability; Chapter 4 Outsider energies; Chapter 5 Encountering paralysis: Disability, trauma, and narrative; Chapter 6 New technologies of embodiment: Cyborgs and websurfers; Epilog: Toward the unknown body: Stillness, silence, and space in mental health settings; Notes
  • BibliographyIndex

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