Introduction: Disability Works

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Disability Works 1
4. 1. Functional Imitation: Rehabilitative Domesticity and Plays for Living’s Austere Realism 35
5. 2. Spectacular Employment: The National Theatre of the Deaf, Sign-Mime, and the Race for Rehabilitation 74
6. 3. Impossible Enterprise: Ron Whyte, CETA, and the National Task Force for Disability and the Arts 101
7. 4. Bureaucratic Drag: Queercrip Performances of Paper Work 139
8. 5. An Actor Repairs: Rehabilitating Stanislavsky at the National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped 179
9. 6. Rehabilitative Redress: Black Disability Performance Histories at Alvin Ailey’s New Visions Dance Project 210
10. Epilogue: After Works 247
11. Acknowledgments 263
12. Notes 267
13. Bibliography 303
14. Index 319
15. About the Author 331