1st Edition

Body, Paper, Stage Writing and Performing Autoethnography

By Tami Spry Copyright 2011
    232 Pages
    by Routledge

    232 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Introduction The Textualizing Body; Chapter 1 Body; Chapter 2 Paper; Chapter 3 Paper; Chapter 4 Stage; Chapter 5 Stage; Chapter 6 Body, Paper, Stage;

    Biography

    Tami Spry