Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren

South Asian Disability and Deaf Theatres

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates translocal intimacies in relation to 21st century transnational South Asian disability theatres in order to lay out new possibilities for accessible theatres. It makes an important contribution to theatre, performance and Disability Studies as well as Feminist Studies and South Asian Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032388298
• ISBN-10: 1032388293
• Artikelnr.: 71662691

Autorenporträt

Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, an Indian American hard-of-hearing choreographer, director, and scholar, is the Co-Director of Wild Studios Consulting, USA. The author of Hearing Difference: The Third Ear in Experimental, Deaf, and Multicultural Theatre (2006), she has also been a Theatre Topics Editor and Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Chapter 1. Disability in India: Towards Future Theatres
Chapter 2. Towards a Transnational Feminist Disability Performance Studies
Chapter 3. Translocal Intimacies, Disability, and the Digital
Chapter 4. Disability, Gender, and Belonging in Mahesh Dattani's Tara and Manjula Padmanabhan's Harvest
Chapter 5. Access Intimacy and Pedagogy: Shyambazar Blind Opera House
Chapter 6. Jana Sanskriti's The Wasteland: A Journey
Chapter 7. Changing the Theatrical Model: COVID, the First Drop Change Foundation, and Playback Theatre
Chapter 8. Towards an Accessible Theatre Practice: Building New Audiences
Afterword
Index