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Disability culture and community performance : find a strange and twisted shape
- Title
- Disability culture and community performance : find a strange and twisted shape / Petra Kuppers.
- Author
- Kuppers, Petra.
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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- Description
- xii, 282 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Performances in hospices, on beaches & at the memory of slavery medicine, cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand & the United States, communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book explores arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade of engagement with disability culture.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-273) and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: anthropology of disability culture -- Traditions -- Sins Invalid -- Cripple -- pt. 1 Making a Home -- 1. Landscaping: Spacings -- Space and meaning -- Communication and process -- Audience and process -- Outlook -- 2. Dancing Stories about Home: Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Land stories -- Translation and intimacy -- Trouble in paradise -- Seacliff -- 3. Community Arts and Practices: Improvising Being-Together -- Local stories -- Methods: the L̀ady of the Lake' -- Anxieties: S̀leeping Giants' -- Conclusion: community art -- pt. 2 Rhizomes/Connections -- 4. Towards a Rhizomatic Model of Disability -- Rhizomatic disability -- Disability/poetry -- Communal performance -- 5. Burning Butoh: Self/Community -- 5.1. Rhizome: Choreography of a Moving Writing Self -- 5.2. Rhizome: Collaboration -- 5.3. Rhizome: Somatic Poetics -- pt. 3 Memory Touch -- 6. Anarcha and Felaweshipe -- 6.1. Performing Anarcha -- 6.2. Anarcha Project Essay: Remembering Anarcha -- Anarcha and disability culture history -- stun -- contemporaneous archive: Sims speaks -- contemporary archive: speaking about Sims -- Epilogue: the visibility of ghosts -- 6.3. Anarcha Project Performative Lecture -- 6.4. Anarcha Project: A Process Report -- Fractured storytelling -- Contentious community -- Touch contact -- Shame -- Arts-methods: song -- Anti-Archive -- pt. 4 Myth-Making -- 7. Eurydice and Tiresias -- 7.1. Tiresian Journeys -- 7.2. Teaching Disability Culture: Tiresias in the Classroom -- Community performance, pedagogy challenges -- Epilogue: The Poeti(x) of Disability Activism -- Deformation: DIY(x) the stone -- Reform/nation -- Form/ation -- Remediation: DIY(x) toward the new desiring machine.
- Call Number
- *MGRT 22-1006
- ISBN
- 9780230298279
- 0230298273
- 9780230316584
- 0230316581
- LCCN
- 2011012058
- OCLC
- 711777261
- Author
- Kuppers, Petra.
- Title
- Disability culture and community performance : find a strange and twisted shape / Petra Kuppers.
- Imprint
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-273) and index.
- Research Call Number
- *MGRT 22-1006