Understanding Disability Studies and Performance Studies

Understanding Disability Studies and Performance Studies
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9781317987482
ISBN-13 : 1317987489
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Book Synopsis Understanding Disability Studies and Performance Studies by : Bruce Henderson

Download or read book Understanding Disability Studies and Performance Studies written by Bruce Henderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together scholarship and creative writing that brings together two of the most innovative fields to emerge from critical and cultural studies in the past few decades: Disability studies and performance studies. It draws on writings about such media as live performance art, photography, silent film, dance, personal narrative and theatre, using such diverse perspectives and methods as queer theory, gender, feminist, and masculinity studies, dance studies, as well as providing first publication of creative writings by award-winning poets and playwrights. This book was based on a special issue of Text and Performance Quarterly.


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