Descript |
vi, 264 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Note |
"This book is a reproduction of Text & performance quarterly, volume 26, issue 1 [2006]."--T.p. verso. |
Contents |
Introduction / Bruce Henderson & R. Noam Ostrander -- Prologue: Thirteen ways of looking at crip poetry / Jim Ferris -- Research reports: Performing amputation : the photographs of Joel-Peter Witkin / Ann Millett-Gallant. Mobility : AXIS dancers push the boundaries of access / Telory Davies. Dances and discourses of (dis)ability : Heather Mills's embodiment of disability on Dancing with the Stars / Margaret M. Quinlan & Benjamin R. Bates. A crippling deceit : mendicancy and the performance of disability in progressive America / Sheila C. Moeschen. I can't be standing up out there : communicative performances of (dis)ability in wheelchair rugby / Kurt Lindemann. Performing unfeminine femininity : a performance of identity analysis of bulimic women's personal narratives / JulieAnn Scott. Remaking (the) discipline : marking the performative accomplishment of (dis) ability / Deanna L. Fassett & Dana L. Morella -- The performance space: BALL : introduction / Brian Lobel. BALL : the script / Brian Lobel. How to tell a true cancer story / Linda M. Park-Fuller. Performing trauma : witnessing BALL and the implications for autoperformance / John T. Warren. The Hero Quest and the hula hoop : Brian Lobel's BALL / Cara Gabriel. Dancing autism : the curious incident of the dog in the Nighttime and Bedlam / Petra Kuppers. Performing depression : the Workman Theatre Project and the making of Joy, A Musical, About depression / Kirsty Johnston. Why disability identity matters : from dramaturgy to casting in John Belluso's Pyretown / Carrie Sandahl. Just try having none / Jim Ferris. |
ISBN |
9780415639699 (pbk.) |
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9780415565530 (hbk.) |
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