자료유형  

 학위논문

Control Number  

0016935261

International Standard Book Number  

9798380599351

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

792

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Stenberg, Nathan R.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[S.l.] : University of Minnesota., 2023

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023

Physical Description  

1 online resource(463 p.)

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-04, Section: B.

General Note  

Advisor: Werry, Margaret L.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2023.

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Summary, Etc.  

요약This dissertation combines archival and ethnographic research to investigate the Pennhurst State School & Hospital (PSSH), a custodial institution for dis/abled people turned haunted attraction, primarily staffed by dis/abled performers. I ask how Pennhurst became a performance venue which commodifies violence for entertainment, while paradoxically fostering community for the very people the former institution sought to eliminate. In doing so, this dissertation uncovers how institutionalization constructs and enforces legal, medical, political, and social notions of disability, producing identities which simultaneously dehumanize and sustain dis/abled people. I theorize institutionalization as an ongoing social process and show how one dis/abled community uses performance to reinterpret and reclaim it.Chapters examine the commitment process to the PSSH through the lens of disability, law, and performance (Act I), and compare official "accounts" of care at the PSSH with the experiences of those forced to exist at the institution (Act II). The first half of the dissertation ends by examining the lawsuits that closed the PSSH, and Pennhurst's influence on current disability policies (Intermezzo). The second half of the dissertation offers an ethnographic analysis of the contemporary Pennhurst Asylum haunted attraction (PA). The PA's immersive performances of horror elide fact with fantasy and conceal ongoing violence against dis/abled people (Act III). The dissertation ends by showing how (in Act IV) the community of dis/abled and nondisabled people who work for PA perform vernacular dis/ability heritage work through their collective inhabitation of and care for this former institution. In doing so, they reclaim the space once intended for their segregation from society to create a space for dis/abled people made by dis/abled people.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Theater.

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Disability studies.

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Law.

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Health care management.

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Bioethics

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Disability

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Historiography

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Performance

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Policy

Added Entry-Corporate Name  

University of Minnesota Theatre Arts

Host Item Entry  

Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-04B.

Host Item Entry  

Dissertation Abstract International

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