Understanding Disability Studies and Performance Studies

<p>This collection brings together scholarship and creative writing that brings together two of the most innovative fields to emerge from critical and cultural studies in the past few decades: Disability studies and performance studies. It draws on writings about such media as live performance art photography silent film dance personal narrative and theatre using such diverse perspectives and methods as queer theory gender feminist and masculinity studies dance studies as well as providing first publication of creative writings by award-winning poets and playwrights.</p><p>This book was based on a special issue of <em>Text and Performance Quarterly.</em></p>