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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779087903321

Autore

Spry Tami

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-43279-X

1-315-43280-3

1-315-43281-1

1-61132-795-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Collana

Qualitative inquiry and social justice

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Ethnology - Biographical methods

Ethnology - Authorship

Autobiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2011 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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