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Disability and Contemporary Performance - Bodies on Edge by Petra Kuppers

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Routledge, 2003. Paperback.

Condition good.

Contents:-

      List of figures

      Acknowledgements

      Figure acknowledgements

      Performance and disability

1    Practices of reading difference

2    Freaks, stages, and medical theatre

3    Deconstructing images: Preforming disability

4    Outsider energies

5    Encountering paralysis: Disability, trauma,

      and narrative

6    New technologies of embodiment: Cyborgs

      and websurfers

      Epilog: Towards the unknown body: Stillness,

      silence, and space in mental health settings

      Notes

      Bibliography

      Index