Disability Arts and Culture

Petra Kuppers is professor of English and women’s studies at University of Michigan, Ann Arbour. Petra is a well respected figure in the field of performance arts, in particular feminist and disabled theatre, and is a faculty fellow at the National Council for Institutional Diversity. She is the author of Theatre and Disability.

'The essays take an unflinching look at disability, unpacking the narratives of disability that are presented in television and other media. [...] Disability Arts and Culture shares multiple experiences of disability to challenge the single story of disability as an inferior state that must be fixed and instead, shows states of being entitled to their agency.'

• IntroductionPetra KuppersTexts and ComplexitiesChapter 1: Pain proxies, migraine and invisible disability in Renée French's H DaySusan Honeyman Chapter 2: At the intersection of Deaf and Asian American performativity in Los Angeles: Deaf West Theatre's and East West Player's adaptations of PippinStephanie LimChapter 3: The blind gaze: Visual impairment and haptic filmmaking in João Júlio Antunes' O jogo/The Game (2010)Eduardo LedesmaChapter 4: What are you looking at? Staring down notions of the disabled body in danceMeghan Durham-WallDiscourse Analysis: Cultures and DifferenceChapter 5: Troubling images? The re-presentation of disabled womanhood: Britain's Missing Top ModelAlison WildeChapter 6: Representations of disability in Turkish television health shows: Neo-liberal articulations of family, religion and the medical approachDikmen Bezmez and Ergin BulutChapter 7: The portrayal of people with disabilities in Moroccan proverbs and jokesGulnara Z. Karimova, Daniel A. Sauers and Firdaousse DakkaPeople's Voices: Qualitative MethodsChapter 8: From awww to awe factor: UK audience meaning-making of the 2012 Paralympics as mediated spectacleCaroline E. M. Hodges, Richard Scullion and Daniel JacksonChapter 9: Disability in television crime drama: Transgression and access Katie EllisChapter 10: 'It's really scared of disability': Disabled comedians' perspectives of the British television comedy industrySharon LockyerEthnographic Approaches: Project ReportsChapter 11: Re-voicing: Community choir participation as a medium for identity formation amongst people with learning disabilitiesNedim HassanChapter 12: Dancing as a wolf: Art-based understanding of autistic spectrum conditionKevin BurrowsChapter 13: Disabling ability in dance: Intercultural dramaturgies of the Thikwa plus Junkan ProjectNanako NakajimaChapter 14: Swimming with the Salamander: A community eco-performance projectPetra KuppersNotes on contributors