Disability Works : Performance after Rehabilitation.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKelvey, Patrick.

Series:

Performance and American Cultures Series

Performance and American Cultures Series ; v.8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination against people with disabilities--United States--Prevention.

Discrimination against people with disabilities.

People with disabilities--Employment--United States.

People with disabilities.

Vocational rehabilitation--United States.

Vocational rehabilitation.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Disability Works offers a cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United States"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Disability Works

1. Functional Imitation: Rehabilitative Domesticity and Plays for Livings Austere Realism

2. Spectacular Employment: The National Theatre of the Deaf, Sign-Mime, and the Race for Rehabilitation

3. Impossible Enterprise: Ron Whyte, CETA, and the National Task Force for Disability and the Arts

4. Bureaucratic Drag: Queercrip Performances of Paper Work

5. An Actor Repairs: Rehabilitating Stanislavsky at the National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped

6. Rehabilitative Redress: Black Disability Performance Histories at Alvin Aileys New Visions Dance Project

Epilogue: After Works

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: McKelvey, Patrick Disability Works

ISBN:

9781479824892

OCLC:

1441725740