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Disability Studies

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Seriously Mad

Mental Distress and the Broadway Musical

By Aleksei Grinenko
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Music, Musicology, Disability Studies, Psychology

Explores the history of American musical theater’s engagement with notions of madness, from Man of La Mancha to A Strange Loop

Freak Performances

Dissidence in Latin American Theater

By Analola Santana
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Disability Studies, American Studies, Latin American Studies, Literary Studies, Latinx Studies

Explores how theater artists challenge the legacy of colonialism in Latin America through performance

Affect, Animals, and Autists

Feeling Around the Edges of the Human in Performance

By Marla Carlson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Disability Studies, Literary Studies

Explores the emotional responses of audiences to neurodiverse characters and non-human animals on stage to question the boundaries of the human

Acts of Conspicuous Compassion

Performance Culture and American Charity Practices

By Sheila C. Moeschen
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Disability Studies, American Studies

Illuminates the relationship between performance and the American charity movement

Bodies in Commotion

Disability and Performance

By Carrie Sandahl & Philip Auslander
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Dance
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

The first collection to explore the lively intersection of performance studies and disability studies, provoking new ways of looking at body, space, spectatorship, and identity

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