Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange by P. Kuppers

By P. Kuppers

Performances in hospices and on shorelines; cross-cultural fable making in Wales, New Zealand and the U.S.; communal poetry between psychological well-being procedure survivors: this booklet, now in paperback, provides a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based examine methods sustained over greater than a decade - a sophisticated engagement with incapacity culture.

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