Body, paper, stage : writing and performing autoethnography / Tami Spry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spry, Tami, author.

Series:

Qualitative inquiry and social justice.

Qualitative inquiry and social justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Biographical methods.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Authorship.

Autobiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Contents; Foreword: Performing Authoethnography: Making the Personal Political - Norman K. Denzin ; Preface: Autoethnography Lost and Found ; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Textualizing Body ; Chapter One: Body: Conceptualizing Performative Autoethnography ; Chapter Two: Paper: Writing the Body ; Chapter Three: Paper: Composing Performative Autoethnography ; Chapter Four: Stage: Performing the Autoethnographic Body ; Chapter Five: Stage: Embodying Performative Autoethnography ; Chapter Six: Body, Paper, Stage and Back Again ; References; Index; About the Author

Notes:

First published 2011 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-43279-X

1-315-43280-3

1-315-43281-1

1-61132-795-4

9781315432816

OCLC:

774272231