The Social, Aesthetic, and Medical Implications of Performing Shame: Interdisciplinary Approaches

by Marlene Goldman

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032205547
• ISBN13: 9781032205540
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"