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Main description:
Performing Shame shows how simulations of shame by North American writers and artists have the power to resist its withering influence.
Chapter 1 analyses the projects' key terms: shame, performance, and empathy. Chapter 2 probes the book's key terms in light of a real-world study of an "empathy device" that aims to teach the public what it feels like to be disabled. Chapter 3 analyses how theatre intervenes in the practice of medicine via standardized patient actors who engage in role play to enhance medical students' empathy for patients coping with shame. Chapter 4 moves from the clinic to the street to examine how The Raging Grannies' public performances contest ageist constructions of older women's bodies and desires. Chapter 5 shifts further from the bedside to the book by exploring Alison Bechdel's graphic novel Fun Home, which challenges the shame projected onto homosexuals. Bringing the study full circle, the final chapter offers close readings of the stories of Alice Munro; like empathy devices, her texts restage scenes of shame to undo its malevolent spell.
This book will be of interest to scholars in theatre and performance studies, health humanities, gender studies, queer studies, literary studies, disability studies, and affect studies.
Contents:
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Performing Shame: A Brief Introduction
Chapter 1 - Keywords: Shame, Performance, and Empathy
Chapter 2 - Empathy Devices
Chapter 3 - Medicine's Hidden Curriculum and the Use of Standardized Patients to Reduce Shame and Foster Empathy
Chapter 4 - Contesting Sexism and Ageism through Political Activism: The Raging Grannies
Chapter 5 - Withdrawing Shame: Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
Chapter 6 - Alice Munro's Performative Fictions: Challenging (Dis)Ability
Conclusion: "Embrace the Gap"
Works Cited
Index
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: June, 2023
Pages: 240
Weight: 652g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Psychotherapy, Public Health