“TURNING SETBACKS INTO COMEBACKS”: REPRESENTING DISABILITY IN PING CHONG’S INSIDE/ OUT…VOICES FROM THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY Cover Image

“TURNING SETBACKS INTO COMEBACKS”: REPRESENTING DISABILITY IN PING CHONG’S INSIDE/ OUT…VOICES FROM THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY
“TURNING SETBACKS INTO COMEBACKS”: REPRESENTING DISABILITY IN PING CHONG’S INSIDE/ OUT…VOICES FROM THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY

Author(s): Diana Benea
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: community theatre;disability;performance;representation;

Summary/Abstract: In conversation with recent contributions in the field of disability studies, the article analyzes the representation of disability experience in Chinese American playwright Ping Chong’s Inside/ Out: Voices from the Disability Community (2008), produced within the framework of his ongoing series of community-based performance works entitled Undesirable Elements (1992-). Aligning Chong’s theatrical piece with the cultural model of disability, the paper examines the political stakes of self-representation through testimonial performance, as a site of critical intervention into the classic repertoire of mediated representations of disability.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 109-120
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English