Format:
ix, 294 Seiten
,
25 cm
ISBN:
9780815362630
,
0815362633
,
9780367592110
Series Statement:
World library of educationalists series
Content:
"Writing Performance, Identity, and Everyday Life invites the reader into Ronald J. Pelias' world of artistic and everyday performance. Calling upon a broad range of qualitative methods, these selected writings from Pelias submerge themselves in the evocative and embodied, in the material and consequential, often creating moving accounts of their topics. By the end, readers will see Pelias demonstrate the power of qualitative methods to engage and to present alternative ways of being. Pelias' work shows us how to understand and feel the evocative strength of thinking performatively"--
Content:
PART I. Foundational logics. Performative inquiry: embodiment and its challenges -- Writing autoethnography: the personal, poetic, and performative as compositional strategies -- Performative writing as scholarship: an argument, an anecdote -- Performative writing: the ethics of representation in form and body -- Writing into position: Strategies for composition and evaluation -- Pledging personal allegiance to qualitative inquiry ; PART II. Performance. A paradigm for performance studies -- Empathy: some implications of social cognition research for interpretation study -- Performance studies: meditations and mediations -- Performance is . . . -- Confessions of an apprehensive performer -- Toward a poetic phenomenology of performance -- Seductions ; PART III. Identity. The DEF Comedy Jam, bell hooks, and me -- My body's placement: an autoethnographic account of communicative practice -- Making my masculine body behave -- Jarheads, girly men, and the pleasures of violence -- A personal history of lust on Bourbon Street ; PART IV. Everyday life. Remembering Vietnam -- The critical life -- The academic tourist: a critical ethnography -- Always dying: living between da and fort -- For father and son: an ethnodrama with no catharsis -- Remains -- The end of an academic career: the desperate attempt to hang on and let go
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Language:
English
Keywords:
Darstellende Kunst
;
Schauspielkunst
;
Performance
