Theatres of learning disability : good, bad, or plain ugly? /

"This is the first scholarly book to focus exclusively on theatre and learning disability as theatre - rather than advocacy or therapy. Matt Hargrave provocatively realigns many of the (hitherto unvoiced) assumptions that underpin such practices, and opens up a new set of critical questions. St...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hargrave, Matt, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Temas:
People with disabilities and the performing arts.
Personnes handicapées et arts du spectacle.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
People with disabilities and the performing arts
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword by Tim Wheeler
  • Acknowledgements
  • Prologue: Of moths and methods
  • PART I: THE SURROGATE
  • 1. The end of disability arts: theatre, disability and the social model
  • 2. Pure products go crazy: the aesthetic value of learning disability
  • 3. On quality: disability and aesthetic judgements
  • 4. Genealogies: the cultural faces of learning disability
  • PART II: A PROPER ACTOR
  • 5. Nobody's Perfect: disability identity as masquerade
  • 6. The uncanny return of Boo Radley: disability, dramaturgy and reception
  • Conclusion
  • Envoi: The Bartleby Parallax.

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