South Asian Disability and Deaf Theatres (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 ethnog