Flying? Falling? – Conflicting Representations of Disability in Kevin Kerr’s Skydive (2007) and Brad Fraser’s Kill Me Now (2013)

• Published in: Journal of Contemporary Drama in English
• Main Author: Schallegger, René Reinhold
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2017
• Subjects: Literature and Literary Theory; Visual Arts and Performing Arts; Kerr; First Nations
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2017-0030; http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jcde.2017.5.issue-2/jcde-2017-0030/jcde-2017-0030.xml; http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jcde.2017.5.issue-2/jcde-2017-0030/jcde-2017-0030.pdf

Abstract Canadian contemporary theatre is defined by a preponderance of previously marginalised discourses such as Feminist drama, First Nations drama, or Queer drama. The centre to periphery dispersal that has driven the Canadian cultural scene since the Massey Commission’s final report (1951) has...