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Sanders-Andrews, Megwyn.

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Performing Humanity: Representations of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Performing Humanity: Representations of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities./
Author:	Sanders-Andrews, Megwyn.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	180 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-04A(E).
Subject:	Performing arts. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10688496
ISBN:	9780355540123

Performing Humanity: Representations of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
Sanders-Andrews, Megwyn.

Performing Humanity: Representations of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 180 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2017.

In 1915, Dr. Harry Haiselden, a prominent Chicago physician and eugenics proponent, withheld treatment from the Bollinger baby, a child born with physical and cognitive disabilities, allowing the child to die. The case of the Bollinger baby attracted significant media attention and was fictionalized as a film, The Black Stork, written by and starring Dr. Haiselden, himself, in 1917. This example illustrates some of the ways in which multiple performances of disability are in reciprocally producing relationships with the cultural atmosphere and historical moment in which they are performed. In this dissertation, I will analyze historical and contemporary performances of intellectual and developmental disability in the United States to investigate how they prop up stigmatizing tropes around disability; impact the material circumstances for people with developmental disabilities; and dehumanize all persons -- with or without disabilities. I will utilize the work of scholars at the intersection of disability and performance such as Matt Hargrave and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and theorists such as Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas, Peter Singer and Julian Savulescu. This analysis of performances of disability will provide insight into historically constructed tropes around disability, including themes of vilification and valorization of the person with disabilities; the infantilization of the person with a disability; othering through an association with non-humans such as aliens, robots, machines and animals; and discourses around quality of life and burden of care for the disabled. This dissertation also examines the ways those tropes are challenged and subverted in contemporary performances. Ultimately, this dissertation addresses the question: how do performances around disability influence how we, as a collective, perform what it means to be human?

ISBN: 9780355540123Subjects--Topical Terms:

523119
Performing arts.

Performing Humanity: Representations of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
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