미국 장애연극에 나타난 다양성의 정치학 —장애, 인종, 민족성의 교차 공연
The Politics of Diversity in American Disability Theater: Performing the Intersection of Disability, Race, and Ethnicity
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This paper discusses American disability theater’s representations of disability identity and disability identity politics. Dramatists John Belluso and Lynn Manning, among others, present characters with disabilities who experience oppressions at multiple, interlocking levels of domination on the basis of disability, race, and ethnicity. In Manning’s Shoot, the black, blind hero iterates episodes in which he experienced discrimination and insults in encounters with whites who used derogatory racist words or belittled him and with some school children who taunted him for just being blind. This play, as in Manning’s solo performance, Weights, presents narratives of a blind person traversing multiple locations of oppression in “a long litany of losses” in a white-dominated and ableist society. Belluso’s Gretty Good Time similarly weaves together stories of disabled women, Gretty and Hideko, who bond together to resist the dominant ideology that reduces them into titillating commodities of mass consumption. Hideko’s story serves the two-fold function of both affirming the specificity of her individual experience as an ethnic other and espousing the communal experience of stigmatization she shares with other disabled women like Gretty. In these plays, the intersection of the identity categories of disability, race,and ethnicity highlights the diversity of the body and the fluidity of boundaries,foregounding the specificity of disabled bodies, while at the same time overthrowing the hierarchical binarism between disabled and “normal” bodies.
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This paper discusses American disability theater’s representations of disability identity and disability identity politics. Dramatists John Belluso and Lynn Manning, among others, present characters with disabilities who experience oppressions at multiple, interlocking levels of domination on the basis of disability, race, and ethnicity. In Manning’s Shoot, the black, blind hero iterates episodes in which he experienced discrimination and insults in encounters with whites who used derogatory racist words or belittled him and with some school children who taunted him for just being blind. This play, as in Manning’s solo performance, Weights, presents narratives of a blind person traversing multiple locations of oppression in “a long litany of losses” in a white-dominated and ableist society. Belluso’s Gretty Good Time similarly weaves together stories of disabled women, Gretty and Hideko, who bond together to resist the dominant ideology that reduces them into titillating commodities of mass consumption. Hideko’s story serves the two-fold function of both affirming the specificity of her individual experience as an ethnic other and espousing the communal experience of stigmatization she shares with other disabled women like Gretty. In these plays, the intersection of the identity categories of disability, race,and ethnicity highlights the diversity of the body and the fluidity of boundaries,foregounding the specificity of disabled bodies, while at the same time overthrowing the hierarchical binarism between disabled and “normal” bodies.
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