Disability and Contemporary Performance

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Halftitle
3. Title
4. Copyright
5. Contents
6. List of figures
7. Acknowledgements
8. Figure acknowledgements
9. Performance and disability: An introduction
10. 1 Practices of reading difference
11. 2 Freaks, stages, and medical theaters
12. 3 Deconstructing images: Performing disability
13. 4 Outsider energies
14. 5 Encountering paralysis: Disability, trauma, and narrative
15. 6 New technologies of embodiment: Cyborgs and websurfers
16. Epilog: Toward the unknown body: Stillness, silence, and space in mental health settings
17. Notes
18. Bibliography
19. Index