South Asian Disability and Deaf Theatres

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-38829-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 429 g

Reihe: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) South Asian Series

South Asian Disability and Deaf Theatres investigates translocal intimacies in relation to twenty-first-century transnational South Asian disability theatres in order to lay out new possibilities for accessible theatres.

The book provides a theoretical and methodological framework for thinking through the relationships between disability, translocal intimacies, and visceral ethnography. It presents new and innovative approaches to rethinking bodily, cultural, spatial, and performance practices in relation to disability and disability rights that cut across national, sociocultural, and artistic boundaries. The author presents a consideration of some of India’s specific theatre examples such as Mahesh Dattani’s Tara; Manjula Padmanabhan’s Harvest; Shyambazar Blind Opera House’s Brihannala; Jana Sanskriti’s The Wasteland: A Journey; and First Drop Change Foundation’s Playback Theatre. Through analyses of specific performances and theatre groups and theoretical explorations of visceral ethnography, disability theatres’ decolonising initiatives, and disability as method, this book furthers the project of creating the conditions for a radically accessible and open-door theatre for both the present and the future.

The first book to cover theatre and Disability Studies in India, it shows that disability literature and theatres assist in delineating ways of reworking the politics of intimacy and belonging within and across differences. The book makes an important contribution to the broad field of theatre, performance and Disability Studies as well as Feminist Studies and South Asian Studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kochhar-Lindgren, Kanta

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.