Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance"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. |
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... com- panies such as the Bay Area's Axis, London's CandoCo, and Seattle's Light Motion; theater companies such Joan Lipkin's DisAbility Project, the National Theatre of the Deaf, the National Theatre Workshop of Introduction 5.
... com- panies such as the Bay Area's Axis, London's CandoCo, and Seattle's Light Motion; theater companies such Joan Lipkin's DisAbility Project, the National Theatre of the Deaf, the National Theatre Workshop of Introduction 5.
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... ( London : Routledge , 2001 ) , especially 29-53 . 14. We specify that these models are U.S. - based , as similar terms are understood differently by U.K. - based disability scholars . For useful explanations of the differ- ences between ...
... ( London : Routledge , 2001 ) , especially 29-53 . 14. We specify that these models are U.S. - based , as similar terms are understood differently by U.K. - based disability scholars . For useful explanations of the differ- ences between ...
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... London: Verso, 1995. ———. “Constructing Normalcy: The Bell Curve, the Novel, and the Invention of the Disabled Body Nineteenth Century.” In The Disability Studies Reader, ed. Lennard J. Davis, 1–9. New York: Routledge, 1997. Dissoi ...
... London: Verso, 1995. ———. “Constructing Normalcy: The Bell Curve, the Novel, and the Invention of the Disabled Body Nineteenth Century.” In The Disability Studies Reader, ed. Lennard J. Davis, 1–9. New York: Routledge, 1997. Dissoi ...
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Contents
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DisabilityDeaf Aesthetics Audiences the Public Sphere | 69 |
Rehabilitating the Medical Model | 129 |
Performing Disability in Daily Life | 215 |
Reading Disability in Dramatic Literature | 269 |
Contributors | 327 |
Index | 333 |
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Page 112 - I have grown to believe that he, motionless as he is, does yet live in reality a deeper, more human, and more universal life than the lover who strangles his mistress, the captain who conquers in battle, or "the husband who avenges his honor.
Page 161 - Like hysteria, hypochondria, and sexuality itself (see the next section), the phantom limb testifies to the pliability and fluidity of what is usually considered the inert, fixed, passive biological body. The biological body, if it exists at all, exists for the subject only through the mediation of an image or series of (social/cultural) images of the body and its capacity for movement and action.
Page 237 - From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually. And so she comes to consider the surveyor and the surveyed within her as the two constituent yet always distinct elements of her identity as a woman.
Page 151 - Some of them smelt with delight a bottle of ammonia when told it was rose water, others would eat a piece of charcoal when presented to them as chocolate. Another would crawl on all fours on the floor, barking furiously when told she was a dog...
Page 107 - Donna J. Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge, 1991. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist- Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century.
Page 97 - It signals instead the end of a certain conception of the human, a conception that may have been applied, at best, to that fraction of humanity who had the wealth, power, and leisure to conceptualize themselves as autonomous beings exercising their will through individual agency and choice.
Page 31 - For to survive in the mouth of this dragon we call america, we have had to learn this first and most vital lesson — that we were never meant to survive. Not as human beings. And neither were most of you here today, Black or not. And that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.