Disability and contemporary performance: bodies on edge

by Kuppers, Petra

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Title Statements

Full title :Disability and contemporary performance : bodies on edge / Petra Kuppers.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:cop. 2004.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:cop. 2004.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 176 str. : : ilustr. ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0415302390, 9780415302395, 0415302382, 9780415302388
oclc:ocn456678626

Introduction -- Practices of reading difference -- Freaks, stages, and medical theaters -- Deconstructing images: performing disability -- Outsider energies -- Encountering paralysis: disability, trauma and narrative -- New technologies of embodiment: cyborgs and websurfers -- Epilogue: toward the unknown body: stillness, silence and space in mental health settings.

Subjects

Artistes handicapés Artists with disabilities Arts -- Aspect politique Arts -- Political aspects Arts and society Arts et société Cultural studies Handicap -- Aspect sociologique People with disabilities and the perfor… Personnes handicapées et arts du specta… Problèmes sociaux dans l'art Social problems in art Sociology of disability