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- Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
- Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
summary
"A testament to the synergy of two evolving fields. From the study of staged performances to examinations of the performing body in everyday life, this book demonstrates the enormous profitability of moving beyond disability as metaphor. . . . It's a lesson that many of our cultural institutions desperately need to learn."
-Martin F. Norden, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
This groundbreaking collection imagines disabled bodies as "bodies in commotion"-bodies that dance across artistic and discursive boundaries, challenging our understanding of both disability and performance. In the book's essays, leading critics and artists explore topics that range from theater and dance to multi-media performance art, agit-prop, American Sign Language theater, and wheelchair sports. Bodies in Commotion is the first collection to consider the mutually interpretive qualities of these two emerging fields, producing a dynamic new resource for artists, activists, and scholars.
-Martin F. Norden, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
This groundbreaking collection imagines disabled bodies as "bodies in commotion"-bodies that dance across artistic and discursive boundaries, challenging our understanding of both disability and performance. In the book's essays, leading critics and artists explore topics that range from theater and dance to multi-media performance art, agit-prop, American Sign Language theater, and wheelchair sports. Bodies in Commotion is the first collection to consider the mutually interpretive qualities of these two emerging fields, producing a dynamic new resource for artists, activists, and scholars.
Table of Contents
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- Part III: Rehabilitating the Medical Model
- pp. 129-134
- Performing Disability, Problematizing Cure
- pp. 135-146
- Dementia and the Performance of Self
- pp. 202-214
- Part IV: Performing Disability in Daily Life
- pp. 215-218
- Looking Blind: A Revelation of Culture’s Eye
- pp. 219-229
- Part V: Reading Disability in Dramatic Literature
- Contributors
- pp. 327-332
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472021727
Related ISBN(s)
9780472068913, 9780472098910
MARC Record
OCLC
593239896
Pages
347
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No