Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Spry, Tami

Title Body, Paper, Stage : Writing and Performing Autoethnography
Published Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, 2011

Copies

Description 1 online resource (234 pages)
Series Qualitative inquiry and social justice
Qualitative inquiry and social justice.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Ethnology -- Biographical methods.
Ethnology -- Authorship
Autobiography.
Autobiographies as Topic
autobiography (genre)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Autobiography
Ethnology -- Authorship
Ethnology -- Biographical methods
Ethnologie
Ethnomethodologie
Autobiografie
Ethnologie.
Das Autobiographische.
Biographische Methode.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781611327953
1611327954
1598744879
9781598744873
1598744860
9781598744866