Disability Aesthetics and Politics in Chinese Literature and Western Music

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Uses the lens of disability to re-examine musical and literary histories and challenge some fundamental assumptions regarding aesthetics, ableism, care, and embodiment. We construe disability beyond the medical model as an identity and experience in order to understand its social-political origins; to that end, we adopt a comparative and cross-cultural approach and use Western music and Chinese literature as two case studies. We hope that this course will generate historical, critical, and cross-cultural insights that help us imagine disability otherwise and create a more inclusive world in which we all thrive.