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Body, paper, stage : writing and performing autoethnography / Tami Spry.
Penn Museum Library GN346.6 .S67 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spry, Tami.
- Series:
- Qualitative inquiry and social justice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Biographical methods.
- Ethnology.
- Ethnology--Authorship.
- Autobiography.
- Physical Description:
- 232 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, Inc., [2011]
- Summary:
- Tami Spry provides a methodological introduction to the budding field of performative autoethnography. She intertwines three necessary elements comprising the process. First one must understand the body-navigating concepts of self, culture, language, class, race, gender, and physicality. The second task is to put that body on the page, assigning words for that body's sociocultural experiences. Finally, this merger of body and paper is lifted up to the stage, crafting a persona as a method of personal inquiry. These three stages are simultaneous and interdependent, and only in cultivating all three does performance autoethnography begin to take shape. Replete with examples and exercises, this is an important introductory work for autoethnographers and performance artists alike. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Body 41
- Conceptualizing Performative Autoethnography
- Why Do Performative Autoethnography? 41
- Self-Other-Context 51
- Connection 52
- Performative Autoethnography and the Performative-I Disposition 53
- Agency and Representation 57
- Embodiment 62
- Rupture and Fragmentation 65
- In-and-Between Bodies 66
- The Performance Studies Classroom and Beyond 70
- Questions for Further Consideration 75
- Chapter 2 Paper 77
- Writing the Body
- Putting the Body On Paper, or, Writing the Performative Body 100
- Our Relationship with Language 101
- Autoethnography Descriptives 103
- An Ethic of Aesthetics in Performative Autoethnography 105
- Language of the Body 107
- Aesthetic Accountability 109
- The Answerable Body 110
- Questions for Further Consideration 114
- Chapter 3 Paper 115
- Composing Performative Autoethnography
- Writing Bodies into Being 115
- Methodology for Composing Performative Autoethnography 126
- Sociocultural Context 128
- Critical Self-Reflection 129
- Self-Other Interaction 132
- The Body 133
- Ethics 134
- Form 140
- Research 145
- Metaphor 148
- Time and Space 148
- Additional Persona 150
- Structuring Performative Autoethnography: From Fragments to Collage 151
- Warm-ups for Writing Performative Autoethnography 153
- Chapter 4 Stage 157
- Performing the Autoethnographic Body
- Why Perform Autoethnography? 157
- Conceptualizing Performance 160
- The Weight of Performative Embodiment: Putting Flesh on the Bones of Discourse 162
- Practiced Vulnerability as Agency 167
- Who and What Are We Performing in Performative Autoethnography? 171
- Questions for Further Consideration 177
- Chapter 5 Stage 179
- Embodying Performative Autoethnography
- Elements of an Embodied Performance 182
- Artistic Work Ethic 183
- Dialogical Performance 185
- Preparing for Rehearsal 188
- Internal/External Dichotomy 189
- Step 1 Analyzing Internal Elements 192
- Step 2 Connecting Internal and External Elements for Performance Choices 194
- Step 3 Making Performance Choices of Voice, Body, Audience, and Space 196
- Warm-ups for Embodying Performative Autoethnography 206
- Chapter 6 Body, Paper, Stage and Back Again 209.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781598744866
- 1598744860
- 9781598744873
- 1598744879
- OCLC:
- 687676378
- Publisher Number:
- 99943809885
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