Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 429 g
Disability, Community, and Critical Volkskörper on the Post-1900 German Stage
Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 429 g
Reihe: Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies
ISBN: 978-3-11-222422-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Bodily imagery abounds when we talk about collectives and those who live in them: a people can be “crippled” by a natural disaster, pronounced “healthy” after an economic upswing, beset by an “epidemic” of a new social woe. However, we lack a precise vocabulary to address the complexity of such embodied collectivity – namely, one that bridges metaphor and material in a way that reflects a range of lived experiences. In response to that need, develops a framework from critical disability studies, crip theory, and performance studies to offer (“body of a people”) to Anglophone scholarship on disability and performance. To do so, it first disentangles from its relatively recent history as a violently normative, singular “body of the people” and reclaims its longer history as a manifold, often crip and queer body that embraces vulnerability and diversity. Using that reframing, the book traces non-hegemonic Volkskörper in a selection of Germanophone plays and productions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By considering those performances of shared bodies, the book opens new ways to understand how people’s bodies of all kinds arise, perform, rest, fail, and change.
